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Author : Harriet Guest
Release : 2007-12-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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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. This book was released on 2007-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and richly illustrated study of the pictorial and written representations of Cook's voyages.
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 : Bernard Wasserstein
Release : 2009-02-12
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 2009-02-12. 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.
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.
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Release : 2015-10-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Barbarism Revisited written by . This book was released on 2015-10-27. 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.
