{"product_id":"9780714684765","title":"Mill on Civilization and Barbarism","description":"John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In  it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming  to a standstill. This was an extraordinarily pessimistic claim in view of Britain's global dominance at the time and one that has been insufficiently investigated in the secondary  literature. The wanting model was that of China, a once advanced civilisation that had apparently ossified.;To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation,  and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process. Here India plays a central role, as both Mill and  his father worked for the East India Company. This study, then, investigates the relationship between Mill's liberalism  and his justification of imperialism. It takes us into the Utilitarianism of his family background, and such other influences as Romanticism, Scottish political economy and such key French thinkers as Saint-Simon, Guizot, Comte and Tocqueville. Mill, then, provides the focus of a debate on the origins, meaning, and consequences of Western civilisation.;It encompasses discourses on colonialism and orientalism, on enli","brand":"Michael Levin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45810604179774,"sku":"9780714684765","price":3688.44,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780714684765_2d1e6eb4-e2e1-419a-958c-75868f42fad1.jpg?v=1707313789","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780714684765","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}