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  Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, C.1830 - 2000 (Hardback) Edited by Tom Crook, Edited by Rebecca Gill, Edited by Bertrand Taithe

  

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  Short Description for Evil, Barbarism and EmpireEvil 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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  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages
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  • Categories: General & World History | European History | British & Irish History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Colonialism & Imperialism
  • ISBN 13: 9780230241275 ISBN 10: 0230241271

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• 'Genocide', 'totalitarianism', 'mass warfare': these are among the immediate historiographical coordinates that spring to mind when thinking about evil and barbarism in the context of European modernity. The aim of this volume is to begin the task of generating a new set of coordinates, ones which set established preoccupations within a more expansive interpretive framework. These coordinates are threefold: political, in terms of the discourses and practices of liberal governance; historiographical, in terms of moving beyond philosophical and empirical approaches to evil and barbarism; and chronological, in terms of the various assumptions regarding human agency, free will and time that emerged in the wake of the Enlightenment. The principal geographical focus is imperial Britain, but the volume also features essays which address colonial encounters abroad, including those of France and Germany.