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Covenants without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire
Jeanne Morefield
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other. It does so by examining the work of two extremely influential British liberals and internationalists, Gilbert Murray and Alfred Zimmern. Jeanne Morefield mounts a forceful challenge to disciplinary boundaries by arguing that this tension, on both the domestic and international levels, is best understood as frequently arising from the same, liberal reformist political aim--namely, the aim of fashioning a socially conscious liberalism that ... Read more
Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other. It does so by examining the work of two extremely influential British liberals and internationalists, Gilbert Murray and Alfred Zimmern. Jeanne Morefield mounts a forceful challenge to disciplinary boundaries by arguing that this tension, on both the domestic and international levels, is best understood as frequently arising from the same, liberal reformist political aim--namely, the aim of fashioning a socially conscious liberalism that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691171401
SKU
V9780691171401
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About Jeanne Morefield
Jeanne Morefield is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.
Reviews for Covenants without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire
Morefield has provided a sure-handed and tightly argued account of a body of liberal thought whose failings had unfortunate effects on world politics and whose paradoxes continue to be instructive.
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