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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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- The nature of civilization: the semantics of civilization and civility in Scandinavia / Helge Jordheim
- Great Britain: the creation of an imperial global order / Margrit Pernau
- France: sociability in the imperial republic / Emmanuelle Saada
- Germany: redrawing of civilizational trajectories / Christian Bailey
- The education of Ottoman man and the practives of orderliness / Einar Wigen
- Journeys between civility and wilderness: debates on civilization and emotions in the Arab Middle East, 1861-1939 / Orit Bashkin
- Moral refinement and manhood in Persian / Mana Kia
- The virtuous individual and social reform: debates amon North Indian Urdu speakers / Margrit Pernau
- Spectres of the West: negotiating a civilizational figure in Hindi / Mohinder Singh
- From civilizational heroism to an ethic of universal humanity: Bengali discussions of civility / Rochona Majumdar
- Transforming Chinese hearts, minds, and bodies in the name of progress, civility, and civilization / Angelika C. Messner
- patriotism, virtue, and the clash of civilities in Japanese / Oleg Benesch
- From shame to sympathy: civilization and emotion in Korea, 1860-1920 / Myoungkyu Park
- Afterword: reflections on some challenges / Jan Ifversen.