TY - BOOK AU - Mantena,Karuna TI - Alibis of empire : Henry Maine and the ends of liberal imperialism SN - 9788178242873 AV - JC359 .M277 2010 U1 - 325.32 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Maine, Henry Sumner, KW - Imperialism KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-253) and index; Introduction; The ideological origins of indirect rule --; Ch. 1; The crisis of liberal imperialism --; Ch. 2; Inventing traditional society : empire and the origins of social theory --; Ch. 3; Codification in the East and West --; Ch. 4; The nineteenth-century debate on property --; Ch. 5; Native society in crisis : conceptual foundations of indirect rule --; Coda; Liberalism and empire reconsidered ER -