Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del 40 i serien Studies in Global Social History

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Beskrivning

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, Jürgen Osterhammel, Frank Ninkovich, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Esther Moeller, and Jost Dülffer.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:487 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Global Social History
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004436954

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on ContributorsCivilizing Missions from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, or from Uplifting to DemocratizationBoris Barth and Rolf HobsonThe Cultural Transformation of America’s Civilizing Mission in the Twentieth CenturyFrank NinkovichNation-Building, Concepts of Space and Civilizing Mission in the Early Second Republic of PolandBianka Pietrow-EnnkerAmbiguities of the Domestic Civilizing Mission: Technocratic Elites and Social Engineering in Interwar EuropeBoris BarthLilliputians for Peace: Scandinavian Internationalism and International Disarmament c. 1880–1940Karen Gram-SkjoldagerQuestioning the Civilizing Mission: Humanitarianism and the Arab World in the 20th CenturyEsther MoellerThe Democratic Peace Controversy in Retrospect as a “Civilizing Mission”? a Theory RevisitedJost DülfferAmerican Nationalism and Regime Change: How the Neocons Tried to Speed Up the InevitableRolf HobsonEpilogue: from Civilizing Missions to the Defence of CivilityJürgen OsterhammelIndex