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British Liberal Internationalism, 1880-1930
Casper Sylvest
Category: Humanities: History
ISBN: 0-7190-7909-8 EAN: 978-0-7190-7909-2 Format: Hardback Pages: 276 Publisher: Univ of Manchester Year: 2009 Quantity in Stock: 49
Cover price: £60 Sale Price:£7.99
This book explores the development, character, and legacy of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Liberal internationalism provided a powerful way of theorising and imagining international relations, and it dominated well-informed political discourse at a time when Britain was the most powerful country in the world. Its proponents focused on securing progress, generating order and enacting justice in international affairs. Liberal internationalism united a diverse group of intellectuals and public figures, and it left a lasting legacy in the twentieth century. This book elucidates the roots, trajectory, and diversity of liberal internationalism, focusing in particular on three intellectual languages -- international law, philosophy and history -- through which it was promulgated. Finally, it traces the impact of these ideas across the defining moment of the First World War. The liberal internationalist vision of the late-nineteenth century remained popular well into the twentieth century and forms an important backdrop to the development of the academic study of International Relations in Britain.
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