Evil, Barbarism and Empire
Britain and Abroad, c.1830 - 2000
Herausgegeben:Crook, Tom; Gill, R.; Taithe, B.
Evil, Barbarism and Empire
Britain and Abroad, c.1830 - 2000
Herausgegeben:Crook, Tom; Gill, R.; Taithe, B.
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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.
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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.
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- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-31697-7
- 1st ed. 2011
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 387g
- ISBN-13: 9781349316977
- ISBN-10: 1349316970
- Artikelnr.: 45078090
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-31697-7
- 1st ed. 2011
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 387g
- ISBN-13: 9781349316977
- ISBN-10: 1349316970
- Artikelnr.: 45078090
EUGENIO F. BIAGINI Reader in Modern British and European History, the University of Cambridge, UK TOM CROOK Lecturer in Modern British History, Oxford Brookes University, UK REBECCA GILL Lecturer in Modern British History, the University of Huddersfield, UK TIM JACOBY Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies, the University of Manchester, UK H.S JONES Professor of Intellectual History, the University of Manchester, UK SCOTT MCCRACKEN Professor of English, Keele University, UK THOMAS OSBORNE Professor of Sociology, the University of Bristol, UK DAVID SPEICHER Ph.D. student, the University of Mississippi, USA BERTRAND TAITHE Professor of Cultural History, the University of Manchester, UK ANTONY TAYLOR Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK CHRISTINA TWOMEY Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire; T.Crook , R.Gill & B.Taithe PART I: METROPOLITAN EVILS Evil in Question: The Victorian Social and the Politics of Prostitution, 1830-1900; T.Crook Terror, Spectacle and the Press: Anarchist Outrage in Edwardian England; D.Speicher 'And I am the God of Destruction!': Fu Manchu and the Construction of Asiatic Evil in the Novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939; A.Taylor PART II: IMPERIAL EVILS The Politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the Indian Mutiny, and the Radical Critique of Liberal Imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain; E.F.Biagini The Victorian Lexicon of Evil: Frederic Harrison, the Positivists and the Language of International Politics; H.S. Jones PART III: GEOPOLITICS OF EVIL Evil, Liberalism and the Imperial Designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905; B.Taithe 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it': Arnold J. Toynbee and his Encounters with Atrocity, 1915-1923; R.Gill Atrocity Narratives and Inter-Imperial Rivalry: Britain, Germany and the Treatment of 'Native Races', 1904-1939; C.Twomey PART IV: AGENTS OF EVIL Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power; T.Osborne The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?; S.McCracken Islam, Violence and the New Barbarism; T.Jacoby Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire; T.Crook , R.Gill & B.Taithe PART I: METROPOLITAN EVILS Evil in Question: The Victorian Social and the Politics of Prostitution, 1830-1900; T.Crook Terror, Spectacle and the Press: Anarchist Outrage in Edwardian England; D.Speicher 'And I am the God of Destruction!': Fu Manchu and the Construction of Asiatic Evil in the Novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939; A.Taylor PART II: IMPERIAL EVILS The Politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the Indian Mutiny, and the Radical Critique of Liberal Imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain; E.F.Biagini The Victorian Lexicon of Evil: Frederic Harrison, the Positivists and the Language of International Politics; H.S. Jones PART III: GEOPOLITICS OF EVIL Evil, Liberalism and the Imperial Designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905; B.Taithe 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it': Arnold J. Toynbee and his Encounters with Atrocity, 1915-1923; R.Gill Atrocity Narratives and Inter-Imperial Rivalry: Britain, Germany and the Treatment of 'Native Races', 1904-1939; C.Twomey PART IV: AGENTS OF EVIL Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power; T.Osborne The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?; S.McCracken Islam, Violence and the New Barbarism; T.Jacoby Index