Before the deluge: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon

Barron, T. J.

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“…Stephen), and that his anti-imperialism matured later on, after his contacts with Fabian and Labour circles (see also Barron, 1977). 30.…”

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“… 29. In 1912, Woolf resigned his post in Ceylon and returned to Britain: in his autobiography, he claims that the reason was the deep aversion he had developed there towards imperialism. However, Wilson (2008) argues that, though Woolf had by then become a ‘disillusioned imperialist’, the true reason of his return to Britain was private (his decision to marry Virginia Stephen), and that his anti-imperialism matured later on, after his contacts with Fabian and Labour circles (see also Barron, 1977). …”

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Ethics, economics and power in the Cambridge Apostles’ internationalism between the two world wars

Macciò

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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This article reviews the rich internationalist literature produced by a group of Cambridge Apostles in the interwar years, and evaluates it in the context of contemporary British idealist thought. not only wrote extensively on international relations, but were widely read and politically influential. Although they never constituted a formal advocacy group or organization, their views on the First World War, the League of Nations, the British Empire and international trade were significantly similar. They also unanimously opposed conscription when it was introduced in Britain in 1916. Their approach appears original especially as far as its ethical foundation, based on Moore's Principia Ethica, is concerned. The central role played by economic arguments in their reflections is also pointed out.London speaks: her word goes forth East and West, South and North; All the nations heed her voice, London makes her choice:

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“…Stephen), and that his anti-imperialism matured later on, after his contacts with Fabian and Labour circles (see also Barron, 1977). 30.…”

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Ethics, economics and power in the Cambridge Apostles’ internationalism between the two world wars

Macciò

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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Imperialism: An Exposition

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2003

The International Theory of Leonard Woolf

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Critiquing global capital and colonial (in)justice: Structural violence in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and Economic Imperialism (1920)

Davies

2014

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This is the submitted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. argues that in fact it is this unusual if not, at the time of its publication, unique perspectival orientation that enables the novel's interrogation of structural violence. Permanent repository linkWritten from a victim-oriented perspective, the novel excavates the varying layers of structural violence as they are spread both socially and also geographically to show how the colonial administration and its legal system are complicit with, if not actively facilitating, the exploitation of Ceylon by the structures of global capitalism, as well as highlighting the ramifications of the unevenly developing capitalist economy that slowly sutures the island into these cross-national networks.

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Before the deluge: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon

Cited by 3 publications

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Ethics, economics and power in the Cambridge Apostles’ internationalism between the two world wars

Ethics, economics and power in the Cambridge Apostles’ internationalism between the two world wars

Imperialism: An Exposition

Critiquing global capital and colonial (in)justice: Structural violence in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and Economic Imperialism (1920)

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