JS Mill and liberal imperialism: the architecture of a democratization theorem

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Timothy Eric
dc.contributor.supervisorTully, James
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-06T21:02:22Z
dc.date.available2007-09-06T21:02:22Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-09-06T21:02:22Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is on John Stuart Mill’s imperialism. Mill’s classic text Considerations on Representative Government is framed as a treatise of a theorem for guiding “civilized” governors in imperially democratizing “non-civilized others” for the ends of historically moving humanity towards “civilizational progress.” This theorem is broken down into an architecture which consists of the first four chapters of Considerations and a conceptual architecture consisting of three notions: imperialism, democracy, and good governance. In outlining this theorem, gaps and shortcomings currently existing in the body of literature that engages Mill’s relationship with imperialism are identified. The theorem and the secondary literature are also used to problematize and argue against the call by some authors for a turn to Mill’s imperialism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/225
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectbarbarism, civilization, democracy, democratization, empire, good governance, imperialism, John Stuart Mill, liberalism, nineteenth century, savageen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Scienceen_US
dc.titleJS Mill and liberal imperialism: the architecture of a democratization theoremen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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