Imperial Sceptics

Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.

Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has edited numerous works including Modern British Utopias. c.1700-1850 (8 volumes, 1997), Restoration and Augustan British Utopias (2000), Late Victorian Utopias (6 volumes, 2008), and The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (2010). Claeys has written several studies of aspects of the Owenite socialist movement, of the French revolution debate in Britain, and of Thomas Paine's thought.

Review of the hardback: 'An essential addition to the scanty existing literature on the 'other side' of the Imperial debate in Britain. It is good to see the subject moving on at last.' Times Literary Supplement