Civilizing missions in the twentieth century /
The civilizing mission associated with nineteenth-century colonialism became harder to justify after the First World War. In an increasingly anti-imperialist culture, elites reformulated schemes for the "improvement" of "inferior" societies. Nation building, social engineering, h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in global social history ;
v. 40. |
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Table of Contents:
- Civilizing missions from the 19th to the 21st centuries, or from uplifting to democratization / Boris Barth and Rolf Hobson
- The cultural transformation of America's civilizing mission in the twentieth century / Frank Ninkovich
- Nation-building, concepts of space and civilizing mission in the early Second Republic of Poland / Bianka Pietrow-Ennker
- Ambiguities of the domestic civilizing mission : technocratic elites and social engineering in interwar Europe / Boris Barth
- Lilliputians for peace : Scandinavian internationalism and international disarmament c.1880-1940 / Karen Gram-Skjoldager
- Questioning the civilizing mission : humanitarianism and the Arab world in the 20th century / Esther Moeller
- The democratic peace controversy in retrospect as a "civilizing mission"? A theory revisited / Jost Dülffer
- American nationalism and regime change : how the neocons tried to speed up the inevitable / Rolf Hobson
- Epilogue : from civilizing missions to the defence of civility / Jürgen Osterhammel.