Evil, Barbarism and Empire [electronic resource] : Britain and Abroad, c.1830 - 2000 /
Crook, T.editor.
Gill, R.editor.
Taithe, B.editor.
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
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Liberal civilisation and its discontents : evil, barbarism and empire / Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe -- Evil in question : the Victorian social and the politics of prostitution, 1830-1900 / Tom Crook -- Terror, spectacle and the press : anarchist outrage in Edwardian England / David Speicher -- 'And I am the god of destruction!' : Fu Manchu and the construction of Asiatic evil in the novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939 / Antony Taylor -- The politics of Italianism : Reynolds's newspaper, the Indian mutiny, and the radical critique of liberal imperialism in mid-Victorian Britain / Eugenio F. Biagini -- The Victorian lexicon of evil : Frederic Harrison, the positivists and the language of international politics / H.S. Jones -- Evil, liberalism and the imperial designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905 / Bertrand Taithe -- 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it' : Arnold J. Toynbee and his encounters with atrocity, 1915-1923 / Rebecca Gill -- Atrocity narratives and inter-imperial rivalry : Britain, Germany and the treatment of 'native races', 1904-1939 / Christina Twomey -- Conrad's horror : heart of darkness and the imaginary of power / Thomas Osborne -- The lives of others : the defeat of evil or the evil of defeat? / Scott McCracken -- Islam, violence and the new barbarism / Tim Jacoby.
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
World history.
Social history.
Great Britain-History.
History, Modern.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.