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Author : Bernard Wasserstein
Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Barbarism and Civilization by : Bernard Wasserstein
Download or read book Barbarism and Civilization written by Bernard Wasserstein. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.
Author : Christopher Powell
Release : 2011-06-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Barbaric Civilization by : Christopher Powell
Download or read book Barbaric Civilization written by Christopher Powell. This book was released on 2011-06-15. 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.
Author : Mark B. Salter
Release : 2002-09-20
Genre : History
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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. This book was released on 2002-09-20. 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
Author : Graeme R. Newman
Release : 2020-03-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Civilization and Barbarism by : Graeme R. Newman
Download or read book Civilization and Barbarism written by Graeme R. Newman. This book was released on 2020-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of mass incarceration has come under increasing criticism by criminologists and corrections experts who, nevertheless, find themselves at a loss when it comes to offering credible, practical, and humane alternatives. In Civilization and Barbarism, Graeme R. Newman argues this impasse has arisen from a refusal to confront the original essence of punishment, namely, that in some sense it must be painful. He begins with an exposition of the traditional philosophical justifications for punishment and then provides a history of criminal punishment. He shows how, over time, the West abandoned short-term corporal punishment in favor of longer-term incarceration, justifying a massive bureaucratic prison complex as scientific and civilized. Newman compels the reader to confront the biases embedded in this model and the impossibility of defending prisons as a civilized form of punishment. A groundbreaking work that challenges the received wisdom of "corrections," Civilization and Barbarism asks readers to reconsider moderate corporal punishment as an alternative to prison and, for the most serious offenders, forms of incapacitation without prison. The book also features two helpful appendixes: a list of debating points, with common criticisms and their rebuttals, and a chronology of civilized punishments.
Author : Frederick Freeman
Release : 1878
Genre : King Philip's War, 1675-1676
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Book Synopsis Civilization and Barbarism by : Frederick Freeman
Download or read book Civilization and Barbarism written by Frederick Freeman. This book was released on 1878. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
