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Utilitarianism and empire
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ISBN: 0739162233 0739105752 9780739162231 9780585114309 0585114307 9780739105757 073911087X 9780739110874 Year: 2005 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Lexington Books

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The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current schol

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