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- catalog abstract ""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. This was an extraordinarily pessimistic claim in view of Britain's global dominance at the time and one that has been insufficiently investigated in the secondary literature. The warning model was that of China, a once advanced civilization that had apparently ossified. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages of development from barbarism to civilization and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilizing process. Here India plays a central role, as both Mill and his father worked for the East India Company. This study, then, investigates the relationship between Mill's liberalism and his justification of imperialism. It takes us into the Utilitarianism of his family background, and such other influences as Romanticism, Scottish political economy and such key French thinkers as Saint-Simon, Guizot, Comte and Tocqueville."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13313650.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""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. This was an extraordinarily pessimistic claim in view of Britain's global dominance at the time and one that has been insufficiently investigated in the secondary literature. The warning model was that of China, a once advanced civilization that had apparently ossified. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages of development from barbarism to civilization and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilizing process. Here India plays a central role, as both Mill and his father worked for the East India Company.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Civilization -- 3. Barbarism and the imperial remedy -- 4. Progress -- 5. Civilization threatened -- 6. Standstill : the case of China -- 7. Aftermath.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-147) and index.".
- catalog description "This study, then, investigates the relationship between Mill's liberalism and his justification of imperialism. It takes us into the Utilitarianism of his family background, and such other influences as Romanticism, Scottish political economy and such key French thinkers as Saint-Simon, Guizot, Comte and Tocqueville."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "152 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0714655902 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0714684767 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "901 22".
- catalog subject "CB19 .L398 2004".
- catalog subject "Civilization Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 Views on civilization.".
- catalog subject "Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. On liberty.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Civilization -- 3. Barbarism and the imperial remedy -- 4. Progress -- 5. Civilization threatened -- 6. Standstill : the case of China -- 7. Aftermath.".
- catalog title "J.S. Mill on civilization and barbarism / Michael Levin.".
- catalog type "text".