Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century

The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how top-down interventions to "improve" societies were justified in terms such as nation building, social engineering, humanitarianism, modernization or the spread of democracy.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Boris Barth is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Charles University, Prague. He has published monographs and many articles on financial imperialism, the stab-in-the-back legend, genocide, and on the crisis of the European democracies in the inter-war years.

Rolf Hobson is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and the University of Bergen. He has published studies of modern European political history, war and society and German military history.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2020
• EAN: 9789004436954
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43695-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Weight: 487 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education