Evil, barbarism and empire[electroni...
Crook, Tom, (1977-)

 

  • Evil, barbarism and empire[electronic resource] :Britain and abroad, c.1830-2000 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 941.08
    書名/作者: Evil, barbarism and empire : Britain and abroad, c.1830-2000 // edited by Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe.
    其他作者: Crook, Tom,
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (x, 290 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Good and evil - Social aspects - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Good and evil - Social aspects - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Imperialism - Social aspects - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Imperialism - Social aspects - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: HISTORY - Europe
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230319325 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230319327 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230241275 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230241271 (Cloth)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    摘要、提要註: 'Genocide', 'totalitarianism', 'mass warfare': these are among the immediate historiographical coordinates that spring to mind when thinking about evil and barbarism in the context of European modernity. The aim of this volume is to begin the task of generating a new set of coordinates, ones which set established preoccupations within a more expansive interpretive framework. These coordinates are threefold: political, in terms of the discourses and practices of liberal governance; historiographical, in terms of moving beyond philosophical and empirical approaches to evil and barbarism; and chronological, in terms of the various assumptions regarding human agency, free will and time that emerged in the wake of the Enlightenment. The principal geographical focus is imperial Britain, but the volume also features essays which address colonial encounters abroad, including those of France and Germany.
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