Alibis of empire: Henry Maine and the ends of liberal imperialism

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule

Chapter 1. The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism

Chapter 2. Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory

Chapter 3. Codification in the East and West

Chapter 4. The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property

Chapter 5. Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule

Coda: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered

Notes

Bibliography

Index