Abstract
Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals’ professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other. It does so by examining the work of two extremely influential British liberals and internationalists, Gilbert Murray and Alfred Zimmern. Jeanne Morefield mounts a forceful challenge to disciplinary boundaries by arguing that this tension, on both the domestic and international levels, is best understood as frequently arising from the same, liberal reformist political aim — namely, the aim of fashioning a socially conscious liberalism that ultimately reifies putatively natural, preliberal notions of paternalistic order.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Princeton, NJ |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781400826322 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780691119922 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Keywords
- League of Nations, internationalism, liberalism, imperialism, GIlbert Murray, Alfred Zimmern