Empire of Neglect : The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, Paperb...

Description: Empire of Neglect : The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, Paperback by Taylor, Christopher, ISBN 0822371154, ISBN-13 9780822371151, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Empire of Neglect : The West Indies in the Wake of British Libera

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Empire of Neglect : the West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

Publisher: Duke University Press

Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year: 2018

Item Height: 0.7 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 15.2 Oz

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, History

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Christopher Taylor

Series: Radical Américas Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback