Title Civilizing missions in the twentieth century / edited by Boris Barth and Rolf Hobson

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) Series Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 40 Studies in global social history ; v. 40. Contents Civilizing missions from the 19th to the 21st centuries, or from uplifting to democratization / Boris Barth and Rolf Hobson -- The cultural transformation of America's civilizing mission in the twentieth century / Frank Ninkovich -- Nation-building, concepts of space and civilizing mission in the early Second Republic of Poland / Bianka Pietrow-Ennker -- Ambiguities of the domestic civilizing mission : technocratic elites and social engineering in interwar Europe / Boris Barth -- Lilliputians for peace : Scandinavian internationalism and international disarmament c.1880-1940 / Karen Gram-Skjoldager -- Questioning the civilizing mission : humanitarianism and the Arab world in the 20th century / Esther Moeller -- The democratic peace controversy in retrospect as a "civilizing mission"? A theory revisited / Jost Dülffer -- American nationalism and regime change : how the neocons tried to speed up the inevitable / Rolf Hobson -- Epilogue : from civilizing missions to the defence of civility / Jürgen Osterhammel Summary The civilizing mission associated with nineteenth-century colonialism became harder to justify after the First World War. In an increasingly anti-imperialist culture, elites reformulated schemes for the "improvement" of "inferior" societies. Nation building, social engineering, humanitarianism, modernization or the spread of democracy were used to justify outside interventions and the top-down transformation of non-western, international or even domestic societies. The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how these justifications influenced Polish nation building, Scandinavian disarmament proposals and technocratic social policies in the interwar years. Treatment of the second half of the century covers the changing cultural context of European humanitarianism, as well as the influence of American social science on US foreign policy, more particularly democracy promotion. Contributors are: Boris Barth, Rolf Hobson, Jurgen Osterhammel, Frank Ninkovich, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Esther Moeller, and Jost Dulffer Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2020) Subject World politics -- 20th century. Nation-building. Social engineering. Democratization. International relations and culture. Democratization Diplomatic relations International relations and culture Nation-building Social engineering World politics SUBJECT Western countries -- Foreign relations Subject Western countries Form Electronic book Author Barth, Boris, editor. Hobson, Rolf, editor. LC no. 2020026606 ISBN 9789004438125 9004438122

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