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The Empire of Civilization (Paperback)
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The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, setting up
a dichotomy wherein people, cultures, and histories are "civilized"
- or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed
throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and socio
political engineering, relatively 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 Western standards, culminating in a
liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the
variety of confrontations and conquests - as well as those peoples
and places excluded or swept aside - undertaken in the name of
civilization. Concluding that "the West and the rest" have more
commonalities than differences, this provocative and engaging book
ultimately points the way toward an authentic inter civilizational
dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.
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