Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology builds on the core principles

builds on the core principles and foundations of its predecessors while expanding into new concepts

two entomologists and a chef make the case for insects as a sustainable source of protein for humans and a necessary part of our future diet

A companion website presents video clips of narrated scanned slides

people in need are too often treated with cruelty

Rebecca Little and Colleen Long

Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology builds on the core principlesWe take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals