Format:
Online-Ressource (142 p)
ISBN:
9780714655901
Content:
John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process. This study encompasses discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from approximately the time of the American and French revolutions to that of the so-called mid-Victorian calm in which On Liberty was written. Current pol
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Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Civilization; Barbarism and the Imperial Remedy; Progress; Civilization Threatened; Standstill: The Case of China; Aftermath; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203329306
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mill on Civilization and Barbarism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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