Civilizing emotions : concepts in nineteenth-century Asia and Europe

Civilizing emotions : concepts in nineteenth-century Asia and Europe / Margrit Pernau ... [and 12 others].

Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on...

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Main Author: Pernau, Margrit (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Emotions in history.
Subjects:
Personality and culture > Asia.
Personality and culture > Europe.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Emotions.
Personality.
emotion.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Personality
Emotions
Emotions > Social aspects
Personality and culture
Gefühl
Zivilisation
Zivilisationsprozess
Begriffsgeschichte > Fach
Asia
Europe
Asien
Europa
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The nature of civilization: the semantics of civilization and civility in Scandinavia / Helge Jordheim
  • Great Britain: the creation of an imperial global order / Margrit Pernau
  • France: sociability in the imperial republic / Emmanuelle Saada
  • Germany: redrawing of civilizational trajectories / Christian Bailey
  • The education of Ottoman man and the practives of orderliness / Einar Wigen
  • Journeys between civility and wilderness: debates on civilization and emotions in the Arab Middle East, 1861-1939 / Orit Bashkin
  • Moral refinement and manhood in Persian / Mana Kia
  • The virtuous individual and social reform: debates amon North Indian Urdu speakers / Margrit Pernau
  • Spectres of the West: negotiating a civilizational figure in Hindi / Mohinder Singh
  • From civilizational heroism to an ethic of universal humanity: Bengali discussions of civility / Rochona Majumdar
  • Transforming Chinese hearts, minds, and bodies in the name of progress, civility, and civilization / Angelika C. Messner
  • patriotism, virtue, and the clash of civilities in Japanese / Oleg Benesch
  • From shame to sympathy: civilization and emotion in Korea, 1860-1920 / Myoungkyu Park
  • Afterword: reflections on some challenges / Jan Ifversen.

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