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Empire of Neglect – The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism: Radical Americas

Autor Christopher Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mai 2018
Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial "neglect"--a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire's distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect's cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822371151
ISBN-10: 0822371154
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Radical Americas


Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One: Managing Neglect
1. The Political Economy of Neglect 33
2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica 72
Interregnum: Between Worlds
3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives 107
Part Two: Building New Worlds
4. Uncle Bolívar's Children 147
5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction" 187
Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come 229
Notes 239
Bibliography 275
Index 301

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Descriere

Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.