The Empire of CivilizationThe Empire of Civilization
The term OC civilizationOCO comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as OC civilizedOCOOCoor 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.
aaaaaaaaaaa From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes OC civilizationOCO as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquestsOCoas well as those peoples and places excluded or swept asideOCoundertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the OC West and the restOCO have more commonalities than differences, " "this provocative and engaging book" "ultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.a
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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