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Title: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire Condition: New EAN: 9780520287839 ISBN: 9780520287839 Publisher: University of California Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 01/03/2016 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 499g Author: Daniel O'Neill Language: English ISBN-10: 0520287835 Description: Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover - and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism - O'Neill demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. Burke's logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between "civilized" societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing "savage" societies from their "civilized" counterparts. This incisive book also shows that Burke's argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Law & Politics Book Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies Topic: History Release Year: 2016
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