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Title:

Evil, barbarism and empire : Britain and abroad, c.1830-2000 / edited by Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
Good and evil--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Good and evil--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Imperialism--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Imperialism--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Crook, Tom, 1977-
Gill, Rebecca.
Taithe, Bertrand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0230241271 (alk. paper)
9780230241275 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711643438

LCCN:

2011013741

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)