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INTRODUCTION*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2014

GLENDA SLUGA  and
TIMOTHY ROWSE
GLENDA SLUGA
Affiliation:
Laureate Program in International History, University of Sydney E-mail: glenda.sluga@sydney.edu.au
TIMOTHY ROWSE
Affiliation:
School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney E-mail: T.Rowse@uws.edu.au
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Extract

The four essays in this collection address the history of liberalism outside Europe, at the same time as they reinscribe European liberalism in global contexts. They ask where, beyond Europe and the North Atlantic, has liberal thought flourished as a way to think about problems of state formation, political economy and social order? They take historical scholarship beyond territories that were formally “colonies” of Europe (or of Europeans) to centres of intellectual activity stimulated and challenged by the global circulation of Western liberalism: the Ottoman Empire, the kingdoms of East Asia, the colonial world, the revolutionary world. Their “global” character is less evident in their individual geographical reach, and more apparent in their individual contributions to the sum of what we know about the appearance of liberal ideas beyond their transatlantic intellectual streams. We have brought them together here in order to raise questions about both the limits of liberalism as a concept, and the conceptual frontiers of intellectual history.

Type
Forum: Global Liberalisms
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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 523 - 528
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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Footnotes

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The essays were first presented and discussed at a roundtable organized by the International History program at the University of Sydney to discuss Chris Bayly, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge, 2012), which is itself conceived as a retelling and complement to Albert Hourani's 1962 classic Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age.

References

1 Ryan, Alan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present (London, 2012)Google Scholar, 872.

2 Ibid., 878.

3 Cooper, Frederic, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (Berkeley, CA, 2005)Google Scholar.

4 Bayly, C. A., Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge, 2012), 3–4Google Scholar.

5 Waldron, Jeremy, “Liberalism,” in Craig, E., ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 5 (London, 1998), 598–9Google Scholar.

6 See Bayly, below in this issue, at n. 5.

7 Waldron, “Liberalism,” 598–9.

8 Hopkins, A. G., “Interactions between the Universal and the Local,” in Hopkins, ed., Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (Basingstoke, 2006), 1–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 12.

9 As Duncan Bell has recently argued, the historiography of liberalism is profoundly implicated in the answer to this question. See Duncan Bell, “What Is Liberalism?”, Political Theory, available at https://cambridge.academia.edu/DuncanBell, accessed 7 May 2014.

10 Bayly, Recovering Liberties.