Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c.1830 - 2000 [Hardcover]

Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire; T.Crook , R.Gill ?& B.Taithe PART I: METROPOLITAN EVILS Evil in Question: The Victorian Social and the Politics of Prostitution, 1830-1900; T.Crook Terror, Spectacle and the Press: Anarchist Outrage in Edwardian England; D.Speicher 'And I am the God of Destruction!': Fu Manchu and the Construction of Asiatic Evil in the Novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939; A.Taylor PART II: IMPERIAL EVILS The Politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the Indian Mutiny, and the Radical Critique of Liberal Imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain; E.F.Biagini The Victorian Lexicon of Evil: Frederic Harrison, the Positivists and the Language of International Politics; H.S. Jones PART III: GEOPOLITICS OF EVIL Evil, Liberalism and the Imperial Designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905; B.Taithe 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it': Arnold J. Toynbee and his Encounters with Atrocity, 1915-1923; R.Gill Atrocity Narratives and Inter-Imperial Rivalry: Britain, Germany and the Treatment of 'Native Races', 1904-1939; C.Twomey PART IV: AGENTS OF EVIL Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power; T.Osborne The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?; S.McCracken Islam, Violence and the New Barbarism; T.Jacoby IndexEUGENIO F. BIAGINI Reader in Modern British and European History, the University of Cambridge, UK TOM CROOK Lecturer in Modern British History, Oxford Brookes University, UK REBECCA GILL Lecturer in Modern British History, the University of Huddersfield,lÓ*