TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Alibis of empire : Henry Maine and the ends of liberal imperialism A2 - Mantena, Karuna, 4. LA - eng PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2010 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2360544 AB - Chronicles the origins, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. This title challenges the idea that Victorian empire was legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. It examines how the Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine's sociotheoretic model of 'traditional' society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. SN - 0691128162 hardback SN - 9780691128160 hardback KW - Maine, Henry Sumner : Political and social views. KW - 1900-luku KW - Imperialism. KW - imperialismi KW - siirtomaat KW - Great Britain : Colonies. KW - Iso-Britannia ER -