Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology people in need are too

people in need are too often treated with cruelty

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required the total annihilation of Jews and Freemasons

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Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology people in need are tooWe take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals