03986nam 22008175 450 991079804060332120230126213915.00-520-28783-50-520-96286-910.1525/9780520962866(CKB)3710000000569778(EBL)4054167(SSID)ssj0001591383(PQKBManifestationID)16290552(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591383(PQKBWorkID)14798440(PQKB)11243820(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535515(MiAaPQ)EBC4054167(OCoLC)934706150(MdBmJHUP)muse53099(DE-B1597)519500(DE-B1597)9780520962866(EXLCZ)99371000000056977820200424h20162016 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrEdmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire /Daniel O'NeillBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (266 p.)Berkeley Series in British Studies ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28782-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. Burke and Empire in Context --Chapter 2. The New World --Chapter 3. India --Chapter 4. Ireland --Conclusion --Notes --Works Cited --IndexEdmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover-and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism-O'Neill demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. Burke's logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between "civilized" societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing "savage" societies from their "civilized" counterparts. This incisive book also shows that Burke's argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism.Berkeley series in British studies ;10.Imperialism18th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and government18th century18th century british empire.18th century imperialism.british colonialism.british history.british political thought.burkes defense of empire.civilized societies.cultural differences.cultural similarities.founding father of conservatism.french revolution.logic of empire.modern conservatism.orientalism.ornamentalism.othering.political philosophy.politics and government of great britain.savage societies.Imperialism325/.32O'Neill Danielauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1515879DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798040603321Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire3751936UNINA