Victorian visions of global order : empire and international relations in nineteenth-century political thought / edited by Duncan Bell - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 - ix, 297 p. ; 24 cm. - Ideas in context ; 86 .

Victorian visions of global order : an introduction / Duncan Bell -- Free trade and global order : the rise and fall of a Victorian vision / Anthony Howe -- The foundations of Victorian international law / Casper Sylvest -- Boundaries of Victorian international law / Jennifer Pitts --'A legislating empire' : Victorian political theorists, codes of law, and empire / Sandra den Otter -- The crisis of liberal imperialism / Karuna Mantena --'Great' versus'small' nations : scale and national greatness in Victorian political thought / Georgios Varouxakis -- The Victorian idea of a global state / Duncan Bell -- Radicalism and the extra-European world : the case of Karl Marx / Gareth Stedman Jones -- Radicalism, Gladstone, and the liberal critique of Disraelian'imperialism' / Peter Cain -- The'left' and the critique of empire c. 1865-1900 : three roots of humanitarian foreign policy / Gregory Claeys -- Consequentialist cosmopolitanism / David Weinstein

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