Civilizing emotions : concepts in nineteenth-century Asia and Europe /
Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Emotions in history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilising process. 'Civilizing Emotions' brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilising process. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191062698 0191062693 9780191807596 0191807591 |