The Imperial Idea and its Enemies
Author | : A P Thornton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1985-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349178675 |
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Author | : A P Thornton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1985-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349178675 |
Author | : Brett Bowden |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226068161 |
The term “civilization” comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as “civilized”—or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes “civilization” as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquests—as well as those peoples and places excluded or swept aside—undertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the “West and the rest” have more commonalities than differences,this provocative and engaging bookultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.
Author | : Brett Bowden |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459605721 |
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, ..
Author | : Wendell Cranston Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Archibald Paton Thornton |
Publisher | : London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Krishan Kumar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691192804 |
"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
Author | : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. McArthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rosamond McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521525053 |
This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians, the contrasting treatments of the eastern and western Empire, his appreciation of past civilizations and their material remains, his audience and their reactions - contemporary and Victorian - are considered in the light of the latest research on eighteenth-century intellectual history on the one hand and on late antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages on the other. The book breaks new ground in taking the form of a dialogue between experts on the fields about which Gibbon himself wrote, and eighteenth-century intellectual historians.
Author | : Christian Scholl |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9783631706251 |
The volume examines imperial rule in the Middle Ages. It asks for the characteristics of imperial leadership as well as the reasons why some rulers strove for imperial titles such as emperor whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. Thus, the authors adopt a transcultural perspective, covering Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.