1st Edition

Ideals Of Empire V4 Political and Economic Thought 1903-1913

Edited By Ewen Green Copyright 2004
946 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 4: Introduction,  The Empire and the Century ( 1905).

Biography

Ewan Green, University of Oxford