Liberal Imperialism in Europe

by Fitzpatrick, Matthew P.

• ISBN13: 9781137019967
• ISBN10: 1137019964
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Traversing much of Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, this new collection offers a fresh understanding of the seemingly paradoxical nexus between liberal Europeans and imperialism during the long nineteenth century. Bringing together leading scholars from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and political science, it redefines the contours of research into European history by illustrating that it was not only the liberal politicians, writers and civic leaders of Britain and France who believed that empires could be vehicles for progress.

Author Biography

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick is a senior lecturer in international history at Flinders University, Australia. He is the author of Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884. 

Table of Contents

Particular or Universal?: Historicising Liberal Approaches to Empire in Europe. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Imperialism after the Great Wave: The Dutch Case in the Netherlands East Indies, 1860-1914—Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Italy, Liberalism and the Age of Empire—Giuseppi Finaldi
Russian Liberalism and the Problem of Imperial Diversity—Alexander Semyonov
Liberty, Equality and Nationality: National Liberalism, Modernization and Empire in Hungary in the 19th Century—László Kürti
From Independence to Trialism: The Croatian Party of Right and the Project for a Liberal 'Greater Croatia' within the Habsburg Empire, 1861-1914—Nevenko Bartulin
Between Völkisch and Universal Visions of Empire: Liberal Imperialism in Mitteleuropa 1890-1918—Eric Kurlander
An Empire of Scientific Experts: Polish Physicians and the Medicalization of the German Borderlands, 1880-1914—Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
The Ottoman Empire's Negotiation of Western Liberal Imperialism—Fatma Müge-Göçek and Murat özyüksel
British and Greek Liberalism and Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century—Andrekos Varnava