Victorian visions of global order : an introduction / Duncan Bell -- Free trade and global order : the rise and fall of a Victorian vision / Anthony Howe -- The foundations of Victorian international law / Casper Sylvest -- Boundaries of Victorian international law / Jennifer Pitts -- 'A legislating empire' : Victorian political theorists, codes of law, and empire / Sandra den Otter -- The crisis of liberal imperialism / Karuna Mantena -- 'Great' versus 'small' nations : scale and national greatness in Victorian political thought / Georgios Varouxakis -- The Victorian idea of a global state / Duncan Bell -- Radicalism and the extra-European world : the case of Karl Marx / Gareth Stedman Jones -- Radicalism, Gladstone, and the liberal critique of Disraelian 'imperialism' / Peter Cain -- The 'left' and the critique of empire c. 1865-1900 : three roots of humanitarian foreign policy / Gregory Claeys -- Consequentialist cosmopolitanism / David Weinstein
Summary
An insight into the climate of political thought surrounding the most powerful empire in history