Evil, barbarism and empire: Britain and abroad, c.1830 - 2000

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. TOM CROOK is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published in journals such as 'Urban History', 'Social History'and 'Journal of Victorian Culture'. He is currently working on a book entitled 'Time and the Social Body: Public Health and English Modernity, 1830-1910'. . REBECCA GILL is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and specialises in the history of humanitarian relief in war. She has published in 'History Workshop Journal' and 'La Revue Le Mouvement Social', and is currently completing a book entitled 'Calculating Compassion: British Relief in War, 1870-1914'. . BERTRAND TAITHE is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on France and Britain since 1860, and in particular on war and humanitarianism. His books include 'Defeated Flesh' (1999), 'Citizenship and Wars' (2001), and 'The Killer Trail' (2009). He has also edited 'French Masculinities' (2007) with Christopher Forth for Palgrave Macmillan. INDICE: List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire; 'T.Crook', 'R.Gill' & 'B.Taithe' - PART I: METROPOLITAN EVILS - Evil in Question: The Victorian Social and the Politics of Prostitution, 1830-1900; 'T.Crook - 'Terror, Spectacle and the Press: Anarchist Outrage in Edwardian England; 'D.Speicher - ''And I am the God of Destruction!': Fu Manchu and the Construction of AsiaticEvil in the Novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939; 'A.Taylor - 'PART II:IMPERIAL EVILS - The Politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the IndianMutiny, and the Radical Critique of Liberal Imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain; 'E.F.Biagini - 'The Victorian Lexicon of Evil: Frederic Harrison, the Positivists and the Language of International Politics; 'H.S. Jones' - PART III: GEOPOLITICS OF EVIL - Evil, Liberalism and the Imperial Designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905; 'B.Taithe' - 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it': Arnold J. Toynbee and his Encounters with Atrocity, 1915-1923; 'R.Gill' - Atrocity Narratives and Inter-Imperial Rivalry: Britain, Germany and the Treatment of 'Native Races', 1904-1939; 'C.Twomey' - PART IV: AGENTS OF EVIL - Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power; 'T.Osborne' - The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?; 'S.McCracken' - Islam, Violence and the New Barbarism; 'T.Jacoby - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24127-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 25/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés