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The Empire of Civilization
Brett Bowden
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Description for The Empire of Civilization
Hardcover. The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. This book examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes civilization as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to ... Read more
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes civilization as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226068145
SKU
V9780226068145
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About Brett Bowden
Brett Bowden is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
Reviews for The Empire of Civilization
"This is an extremely erudite book that clearly illustrates Brett Bowden's mastery of a wide variety of philosophical and historical sources. There is a lot of very interesting material here that is of enormous relevance to any contemporary intellectual reader attempting to place the concepts of 'civilization' and 'civilizations' in their proper historical contexts." - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University" ... Read more