1st Edition

Ideals Of Empire V2 Political and Economic Thought 1903-1913

Edited By Ewen Green Copyright 2004
316 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2004. This 6 volume set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Dubbed Idealists of Empire , they saw that the British Empire seemed to have no governing principles, no structure and no guiding ideals. Sir John Seeley's famous quote of 1883 sums up this... Read more
Volume 2: Introduction,  Imperial Fiscal Reform (1903)

Biography

Ewan Green, University of Oxford