Evil, barbarism and empire
Subtitle: Britain and abroad, c.1830-2000
By: edited by Tom Crook ... [et al.].
Publisher: New York
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780230241275
Subjects: Good and evil; Civilization; Imperialism; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Liberal civilisation and its discontents : evil, barbarism and empire / Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe; title: Evil in question : the Victorian social and the politics of prostitution, 1830-1900 / Tom Crook; title: Terror, spectacle and the press : anarchist outrage in Edwardian England / David Speicher; title: '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; title: The politics of Italianism : Reynolds's newspaper, the Indian mutiny, and the radical critique of liberal imperialism in mid-Victorian Britain / Eugenio F. Biagini; title: The Victorian lexicon of evil : Frederic Harrison, the positivists and the language of international politics / H.S. Jones; title: Evil, liberalism and the imperial designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905 / Bertrand Taithe; title: 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it' : Arnold J. Toynbee and his encounters with atrocity, 1915-1923 / Rebecca Gill; title: Atrocity narratives and inter-imperial rivalry : Britain, Germany and the treatment of 'native races', 1904-1939 / Christina Twomey; title: Conrad's horror : heart of darkness and the imaginary of power / Thomas Osborne; title: The lives of others : the defeat of evil or the evil of defeat? / Scott McCracken; title: Islam, violence and the new barbarism / Tim Jacoby.