
Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 10. September 2020
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-90-04-43695-4 (ISBN)
Description
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, humanitarianism, modernization or the spread of democracy were used to justify outside interventions and the top-down transformation of non-western, international or even domestic societies.
The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how these justifications influenced Polish nation building, Scandinavian disarmament proposals and technocratic social policies in the interwar years. Treatment of the second half of the century covers the changing cultural context of European humanitarianism, as well as the influence of American social science on US foreign policy, more particularly democracy promotion.
Contributors are: Boris Barth, Rolf Hobson, Juergen Osterhammel, Frank Ninkovich, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Esther Moeller, and Jost Duelffer.
The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how these justifications influenced Polish nation building, Scandinavian disarmament proposals and technocratic social policies in the interwar years. Treatment of the second half of the century covers the changing cultural context of European humanitarianism, as well as the influence of American social science on US foreign policy, more particularly democracy promotion.
Contributors are: Boris Barth, Rolf Hobson, Juergen Osterhammel, Frank Ninkovich, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Esther Moeller, and Jost Duelffer.
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Series
Edition
viii, 234 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43695-4 (9789004436954)
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Persons
Prof. Dr. Boris Barth is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Charles University, Prague. He has published monographs and many articles on financial imperialism, the stab-in-the-back legend, genocide, and on the crisis of the European democracies in the inter-war years.
Rolf Hobson is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and the University of Bergen. He has published studies of modern European political history, war and society and German military history.
Rolf Hobson is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and the University of Bergen. He has published studies of modern European political history, war and society and German military history.
Content
Notes on Contributors
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 Duelffer
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
?Juergen Osterhammel
Index
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 Duelffer
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
?Juergen Osterhammel
Index