The empire of civilization : the evolution of an imperial idea / / Brett Bowden
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| Autore: |
Bowden Brett <1968->
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| Titolo: |
The empire of civilization : the evolution of an imperial idea / / Brett Bowden
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/201 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization - Philosophy |
| Civilization - History | |
| Imperialism | |
| International relations - Philosophy | |
| Philosophy, European | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe Territorial expansion |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Guizot's question : universal civilization? -- Civilization, progress, and history : universals all? -- The ideal of civilization : its origins, meanings, and implications -- Civilization and the idea of progress -- The notion of universal civilization : one end for all? -- The art and science of empire -- The expansion of Europe and the classical standard of civilization -- The burden of civilization and the "art and science of colonization" -- New barbarism, old civilization, revived imperialism -- New barbarism and the test of modernity -- The "new realities" of imperialism -- Conclusion: The future of intercivilizational relations. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volum |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The empire of civilization |
| ISBN: | 1-282-23940-6 |
| 9786612239403 | |
| 0-226-06816-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809879503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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