Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism

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Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of past due imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the concept Victorian empire was once primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. Actually, as the British Empire gained its farthest achieve, its ideology was once being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed out the risks and difficulties of looking to “civilize” native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was once a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was once on the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine’s sociotheoretic model of “traditional” society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of past due empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of brand new empire.

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