Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

by Christopher Taylor

Book Overview

Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial "neglect"--a way of ignoring the ties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822371154
• ISBN13: 9780822371151
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"