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Book Synopsis Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation by : Harriet Guest
Download or read book Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation written by Harriet Guest and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and richly illustrated study of the pictorial and written representations of Cook's voyages.
Book Synopsis Barbarism and Civilization by : Bernard Wasserstein
Download or read book Barbarism and Civilization written by Bernard Wasserstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.
Book Synopsis Barbarism and Civilization by : Bernard Wasserstein
Download or read book Barbarism and Civilization written by Bernard Wasserstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity. It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent. Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor.
Download or read book Barbarism Revisited written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.
Book Synopsis Barbaric Civilization by : Christopher Powell
Download or read book Barbaric Civilization written by Christopher Powell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions of the kind that we call "civilized." The combined forward movement of these processes channels violent struggles for social dominance into symbolic performances. But even as the civilizing process frees many subjects from the threat of direct physical force, violence accumulates behind the scenes and at the margins of the social order, kept there by a deeply habituated performance of dominance and subordination called deferentiation. When deferentiation fails, difference becomes dangerous and genocide becomes possible. Connecting historical developments with everyday life occurrences, and discussing examples ranging from thirteenth-century Languedoc to 1994 Rwanda, Powell offers an original framework for analyzing, comparing, and discussing genocides as variable outcomes of a common underlying social system, raising unsettling questions about the contradictions of Western civilization and the possibility of a world without genocide.
Book Synopsis The Empire of Civilization by : Brett Bowden
Download or read book The Empire of Civilization written by Brett Bowden and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, ..
Book Synopsis Mill on Civilization and Barbarism by : Michael Levin
Download or read book Mill on Civilization and Barbarism written by Michael Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mill's contributions in many disciplines are highly regarded by scholars, but the author argues that what has been relatively ignored was his commitment to societal development. The author situates his achievements alongside contemporaries like Comte, Marx and Toqueville.
Book Synopsis Civilization and Barbarism by : Frederick Freeman
Download or read book Civilization and Barbarism written by Frederick Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evil, Barbarism and Empire by : T. Crook
Download or read book Evil, Barbarism and Empire written by T. Crook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
Book Synopsis Barbarism and Its Discontents by : Maria Boletsi
Download or read book Barbarism and Its Discontents written by Maria Boletsi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.
Book Synopsis The History of Civilization by : François Guizot
Download or read book The History of Civilization written by François Guizot and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Civilization in Europe by : Guizot (M., François)
Download or read book History of Civilization in Europe written by Guizot (M., François) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civilization or Barbarism by : Cheikh Anta Diop
Download or read book Civilization or Barbarism written by Cheikh Anta Diop and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.
Book Synopsis Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations by : Mark B. Salter
Download or read book Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations written by Mark B. Salter and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicitly engaging and criticizing Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, Salter (The American U., Cairo, Egypt) places Huntington's thesis in context of long line of discourses justifying imperialism. Acknowledging a debt to post-structuralist theory, he argues that Huntington distinguishes between a civilized West and a barbarous Islam that is the natural enemy of civilization. In order to expose and delegitimize this attempt to "reinscribe imperial cartographies on the post-Cold War order," he traces the civilization/barbarian discourse through the 19th and 20th centuries, in order to illustrate the political function that the discourse serves in international relations theory. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Fear of Barbarians by : Tzvetan Todorov
Download or read book The Fear of Barbarians written by Tzvetan Todorov and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary forms of tension and conflict among nations cannot be described in terms familiar to twentieth century history, but neither can they be reduced to a 'clash of civilizations'. The world today is not divided between an enlightened West and the dark forces of Islam. To avoid the negative impact of these Manichean images we need a much more nuanced view. In this new book Tzvetan Todorov offers an original analysis of the new landscape of fear and resentment that characterizes our world today. He starts by redefining the notions of barbarism and civilization as universal moral categories and explains how they apply to the plurality of cultures; and he distinguishes carefully between various forms of collective identity - cultural, civic and ideological. These conceptual tools enable him to shed fresh light on the current struggle against terrorism and the tensions between communities within Western countries. He invites us to overcome our fears - for fear is a dangerous motive and risks producing an evil that is worse than the evil we initially feared. The fear of the barbarians can turn us into barbarians. Richly illustrated with examples ranging from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to the murder of Theo Van Gogh and the Danish cartoons, this powerful plea for civilized values will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the key challenges facing the world today.
Book Synopsis General History of Civilization in Europe by : Guizot (M., Franȯis)
Download or read book General History of Civilization in Europe written by Guizot (M., Franȯis) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thoughts on Barbarism and Civilization, or Bloodhounds. By a Truth-Seeker by :
Download or read book Thoughts on Barbarism and Civilization, or Bloodhounds. By a Truth-Seeker written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
