Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century by Boris Barth

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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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Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century by Boris Barth

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.
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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ISBN 13 9789004436954
ISBN 10 9004436952
Title Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century
Author Boris Barth
Series Studies In Global Social History
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Brill
Year published 2020-09-10
Number of pages 244
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