"Bruce L. Kinzer provides the first comprehensive investigation of J.S. Mill's multifaceted engagement with the Irish question. Mill, the pre-eminent thinker of his generation, sought to come to terms with the fundamental issues inherent in British-Irish politics. The Irish famine, the question of land reform, the controversy over higher education, and the various dimensions of the Fenian challenge, hallmark the landscape of Mill's more than forty years of writing on the Irish question." "Kinzer's discussion of these episodes pays close attention to the ebb and flow of the issues as they touched upon the English political consciousness. Many of the factors shaping Mill's handling of the Irish question are reflective of a changing English political environment, one in which he sought to create for himself an influential place as radical critic and purposeful agent." "This study argues that Mill's perspective on the Irish question, his trenchant assaults on English parochialism notwithstanding, had a decidedly Anglocentric tilt. The condition of Ireland mattered to him mainly for what it said about the condition of England."--Jacket.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt54tfx
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
England's disgrace?
International Standard Book Number
0802048625
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873.
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873-- Et l'Irlande.
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873
Mill, John Stuart.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Irish question.
Question irlandaise.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Ireland.
Irische Frage
Irish question.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- History & Theory.
Politics and government.
Politieke kwesties.
Public opinion, British.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ireland, Foreign public opinion, British, History, 19th century.