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Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century

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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.


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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.


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Assisted by Boris Barth (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 10.09.2020
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
 
EAN 9789004436954
ISBN 978-90-04-43695-4
Pages 236
Dimensions (packing) 15.5 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm
Weight (packing) 517 g
 
Series Studies in Global Social Histo > 40
Subjects Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / World, History - General History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999)
 

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