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Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire: Volume 10

Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire: Volume 10

O'Neill, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Berkeley British Studies, Book 10

British History

ISBN10: 0520287835
ISBN13: 9780520287839
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover--and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism--O'Neill demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. Burke's logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between civilized societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing savage societies from their civilized counterparts. This incisive book also shows that Burke's argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism.

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