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M. Junaid Alam: The Longer View But until that time arrives, it is necessary to put the natives in their proper place: after military bombardment and national humiliation, the third phase of the civilizing mission is necessarily one of containment. They wanted Iraq to lose its history."(10) Thus one of the first achievements of America's civilizing mission was the destruction of priceless valuables reflecting thousands of years of Mesopotamian civilization: a priceless example of the neoconservative concept of 'creative destruction' at work. For no matter how vicious, how appalling, how infuriating the authors of this civilizing mission may be, they do not represent irrational or grotesque aberrations from a preset course of general progress. www.counterpunch.org /alam05142003.html   (4758 words)

Social Darwinism in Meiji Japan by Joel Weierman One of the first responses to this acceptance of inferiority was to send out a "civilizing mission." The Iwakura Mission, as it was termed, consisted of fifty Japanese men and women sent out to study everything about Western culture. The Iwakura Mission and its contact with the West not only had an indirect influence on Japan's constitution but a direct one as well. The indirect influences came from the informative reports of the Iwakura mission and the subsequent correspondence with German scholars (i.e. www.geocities.com /ganko/meiji.html   (4758 words)

Ahmed, ' 'An Unlimited Intercourse': Historical Contradictions and Imperial Romance in the Early Ninetheenth Century' - _The Containment and Re-Deployment of English India_ - Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romantic Circles Like those about Buchanan’s pamphlet and the East India Company’s monopoly, the debate on the Vellore Mutiny was one more example of the discursive conflict between the principles of the civilizing mission and the politics of empire. Far from signalling a shift in the Company's attitude toward anglicization, Buchanan’s Memoir sparked a public debate in 1807 among the Company's shareholders and in the London periodical press that highlighted the tense relationship between the civilizing mission and imperial politics. Hence, with The Missionary, another voice entered the conflict between the civilizing mission and imperial politics. www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/containment/ahmed/ahmed.html   (4758 words)

First flight to Goa The Governor declared: " At this juncture, to send devadasis — a social sore — which the proclaimed civilizing mission did not eliminate, is an insult !!" The Governor Craveiro Lopes fumed at the idea and asked the committee to "eliminate these messengers who did not dignify the civilizing work of the Portuguese after centuries..." The Governor Craveiro Lopes had clean forgotten that the mixed marriages that Afonso de Albuquerque had promoted and encouraged in 1510, was precisely with the Turkish women prisoners taken from Adil Khan´s harem, and with the devadasis, as other Goan women of caste would not deign to marry the polluted "firangani". www.colaco.net /1/AdmCarlosCaculoFirstGoaFlight.htm   (4758 words)

New Imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While Social Darwinism became current throughout western Europe and the United States, the paternalistic French-style "civilizing mission" (In French: mission civilisatrice) appealed to many European statesmen. The term imperialism was used from the third quarter of the nineteenth century to describe various forms of political control by a greater power over less powerful territories or nationalities, although analytically the phenomena which it denotes may differ greatly from each other and from the "New" imperialism. Britain's adoption of the New Imperialism may be seen as a quest for captive markets or fields for investment of surplus capital, or as a primarily strategic or pre-emptive attempt to protect existing trade links and to prevent the absorption of overseas markets into the increasingly closed imperial trading blocs of rival powers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_imperialism   (3484 words)

Medicine and sainthood: Islamic science, French colonialism and the politics of healing in Morocco, 1877--1935 Medicine had political meaning in France as well, where colonial policymakers used medicine for the “civilizing mission,” a program to bring moral and material improvement to peoples of the French empire. However, the introduction of state institutions and colonial capital, beginning with the French military mission to Morocco in 1877, transformed scientific exchange into colonial conquest. European science did not lead inevitably to European domination, for the sultans of Morocco appropriated European science (and scientists) from the end of the sixteenth century. repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI3109147   (398 words)

When is Prisoner Abuse Racial Violence The photos tell a story of a civilizing mission. This is what must be done to savages and the soldiers, their leaders and the American president all express this view very well. The white knight whose violence is only a civilizing impulse. White knights believe that the dictators, tribes and fundamentalist regimes have arisen out of thin air and not out of a history in which the West is heavily implicated. In Somalia, as in other peacekeeping encounters, the violence often involved children and youth of both genders. Belgian troops tied young children to trucks and raced at top speed (something that still happens to Black men in the United States). www.duckdaotsu.org /racial_violence_abu_ghraib.html   (1756 words)

Journal of San Diego History In a sense, there was a measure of conflict inherent in the twofold purposes of christianizing and civilizing the Indians, the missionaries stressing the former, the government more intent upon the latter. In Nuevo Santander the Indians were to be evangelized and urbanized in pueblo-missions; in Alta California the same purpose was to be accomplished in mission-pueblos. As a matter of fact, Neve, in his Regulation of 1781, was probably not asking for anything in the way of mission organization that had not already been developed on the Spanish frontier. www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/78winter/mission.htm   (1756 words)

Star Trek theology: Gene Roddenberry's pantheism. It is clear that Roddenberry felt a fairly deep hostility to organized religions, to transcendental gods and supernatural powers, though he seems to have acknowledged the civilizing mission of Christianity in Bread and Circuses, where the "Children of the Son" refuse to participate in gladiatorial combats. Gene Roddenberry, the legendary creator of Star Trek, was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1921. Everything in Roddenberry's universe was not all reason and science, however. members.aol.com /heraklit1/startrek.htm   (1860 words)

EXPORTING ILLUSION: The new imperialism - NI 167 - No Kidding Together with this went a belief in the civilizing mission - Lord Lugard spoke of the ‘dual mandate’ - giving the white race the right to exploit Africa, but the duty to prepare Africans for their place in the modern world. British imperialists followed the Romans in referring to a ‘Pax Brittanica’ as their empire expanded massively in the late nineteenth century. Religious reasons have also been advanced to justify conquering other nations: Spanish rule in Latin America and the advance of the British empire were seen as bringing the Bible to ‘heathens’. www.newint.org /issue167/kidding.htm   (1860 words)

St Benedict: Another Brief Life Thus work and study were joyfully intermingled, and each of his monasteries became a colony of God, a mission station with a civilizing influence in the dark night of Northern Europe. He was born in central Italy of good family, was educated at Rome, at 14 years of age joined a Christian group outside the city, and afterwards lived as a hermit in a mountain cave. In the days when monasticism was regarded as the most religious way of life, though it led to many abuses and encouraged the view that the Christian could best serve God by withdrawing from the world, it was St. Benedict who brought to it a new sense of order and significance. www.saintbenedict.org /stben2life.htm   (1860 words)

mckenzie heritage: Black Victorians resource page This more hands-on style of Imperialism went hand in hand with the development of a more entrenched, more dehumanizing form of racist ideology, based on a mix of pseudo-scientific ideas about the 'natural superiority' and 'civilizing mission' of the white race. With missionary zeal at its height, African clergy were brought in some numbers to Britain for theological training, chiefly under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. This was the beginning of the end of slavery in Britain itself, and an encouragement to Black people and to abolitionist campaigners. www.mckenziehpa.com /bv/index.html   (1463 words)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century: Topic 4: Explorations The pageant thus resonates with later texts that seek to justify Britain's imperialist expansion on the basis of its "civilizing mission." Compare Munday with a much later apologist for British imperialism, the Victorian John Ruskin ("Imperial Duty," NAEL 2.). Munday's Triumphs of Reunited Britannia presents both the initial conquest of Britain by Brutus and the subsequent reuniting of Britain under James I as victories of civilization over savagery and anarchy. Wedderburn's Complaint of Scotland and Munday's Triumphs of Reunited Britannia both recount, from very different perspectives, the legendary division of Britain by Brutus, and the prophesy that Britain would one day be reunited. www.wwnorton.com /NAEL/16century/topic_4/explorations.htm   (1070 words)

Idaeus Fons: The Tricolor Over Mars The head of all French forces on Mars, General Saint-Honore is convinced of the importance of the civilizing mission of France. James L. Cambias' article "The French on Mars" (originally published in issue 7 of Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society, republished in volume 2 of TRMGS from Heliograph, Inc.) is an informative description of France's colonial presence on Mars. On one hand, he is humiliated at how the French have taken control of the city's economy and are attempting to impose their religion upon the populace. www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs3/idaeus.shtml   (1542 words)

Don't Play It Again, Sam Sixth reason: British indirect rule, for all its rhetoric of “the civilizing mission”, was ultimately much more modest in its ambitions in most cases than American rule in Iraq is today. American indirect rule in Iraq exists in a world that is largely mobilized against imperial ambitions, often insincerely or instrumentally, but mobilized nevertheless. The United States is trying to get an approximately colonial system of indirect rule up and running in Iraq after June 30th, one more limited in its conception and at least notionally shorter in its projected lifespan than the early 20th Century British equivalent, but one nevertheless. www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/tburke1/perma40604.html   (827 words)

Manas: History and Politics, British India, Indian Novel The 'civilizing mission' was now pursued with a greater vigor, and in Lucknow this led the British to introduce legislation affecting the most private aspects of the lives of Indians, such as the manner and mode of defecation and the burial of the dead. Although the dislocations in Indian society created by the advent of British rule, and later by the penetration of this rule into the countryside and the consequent resistance, have been the subject of innumerable studies, the impact of such developments on subaltern classes like nautch-girls and courtesans has scarcely received any attention. Of course Hasan Shah places her squarely within the framework of patriarchy: thus Khanum Jan appears as the exponent of the view that men cannot be held to promises of fidelity, "because it is almost impossible for a man [and only a man] to remain monogamous all his life" (p. www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Umrao.html   (2330 words)

Amazon.com: King Leopold's Ghost: Books Other pivotal figures include Joseph Conrad, whose disgust with Leopold's "civilizing mission" led to Heart of Darkness; and black American journalist George Washington Williams, who wrote the first systematic indictment of Leopold's colonial regime in 1890. King Leopold is, along with Hitler, Stalin and others of their ilk, one of the arch villains of all time and, as like attracts like, his coldness, cruelty and greed filtered down the ranks to the men who did his dirty work on the ground. King Leopold's reign in the Congo was so vicious that even the other colonial powers of the day had to condemn him.This book is the story of a man that was so greedy- even the pretext of humanitarian aims were summarily ignored during his rule. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618001905?v=glance   (1983 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.10.22 Thus, the panegyrist's description of the dire state of affairs at the moment of Theoderic's arrival in Italy was inspired by "obvious propagandistic motives" (13), while his sense of style and civilizing mission are thoroughly representative of Italian literary circles in the decades around the turn of the sixth century (18-22). Unlike some of Ennodius' readers (most recently Rohr), R is moreover willing to admit the possibility that the Panegyricus was indeed delivered in front of Theoderic, noting that Cassiodorus also recited discourses before the king and that the text we have was certainly revised for publication (33). R opens the fifth and last section of the Introduction, which is concerned with the language and style of the Panegyricus (99-132), by observing that Ennodius' talent for working in a variety of genres means that his writings, be they poetry or prose, represent a synthesis of the secular and the sacred. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-10-22.html   (1983 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.10.22 Thus, the panegyrist's description of the dire state of affairs at the moment of Theoderic's arrival in Italy was inspired by "obvious propagandistic motives" (13), while his sense of style and civilizing mission are thoroughly representative of Italian literary circles in the decades around the turn of the sixth century (18-22). Unlike some of Ennodius' readers (most recently Rohr), R is moreover willing to admit the possibility that the Panegyricus was indeed delivered in front of Theoderic, noting that Cassiodorus also recited discourses before the king and that the text we have was certainly revised for publication (33). R opens the fifth and last section of the Introduction, which is concerned with the language and style of the Panegyricus (99-132), by observing that Ennodius' talent for working in a variety of genres means that his writings, be they poetry or prose, represent a synthesis of the secular and the sacred. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-10-22.html   (1983 words)

Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative •• Türk Öykürleri Sandığı Echoing tsarist claims to a "civilizing" mission in Central Asia, and the Bolsheviks said they were "liberating" colonial peoples. The Central Asians fighting Bolsheviks in the 1920s saw in their Russian adversaries the sons of 19th century military expansionists and missionaries as well as the "godless" Marxists they proclaimed themselves to be. An especially popular, if unimaginative, tool of the Soviet government is "Corruption Charges." Since the Andropov period, several cycles of corruption charges have been brought against the Central Asians. aton.ttu.edu /komatsu.asp   (14672 words)

Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative •• Türk Öykürleri Sandığı Echoing tsarist claims to a "civilizing" mission in Central Asia, and the Bolsheviks said they were "liberating" colonial peoples. In post 17th century Central Asia, the earlier powerful land empires that held sway had been mortally wounded by internal and external forces-- struggles, even civil wars, for the thrones were fought for by an overabundance of heirs and other claimants; and the shift to maritime trade routes drew commerce to the coasts. This remorseful Christian was the advisor to the tsarist Military Governor in Tashkent, and his known activities suggest the existence of items other than Christianity or Islam on his operational agenda. www.aton.ttu.edu /komatsu.asp   (14672 words)

paksoyt1.html tsarist claims to a "civilizing" mission in Central Asia, tsarist times, these bands existed when independence was tsarist armies moved south to annex the former as the www.turkiye.net /sota/paksoyt1.html   (14672 words)

Political Affairs Magazine - Torture and Empire: An Interview with Lila Rajiva They are Anglophile cultural critics, apologists for the civilizing mission of the American Empire, which they see as a worthy successor to the British empire. If there's any available space on planet earth, or in the heavens, or underwater, or underground, or even inside your head, the logic of empire dictates that the corporate-state will want to be there, too. Baltimore resident Lila Rajiva is the author of The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media (Monthly Review Press 2005). www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2399/1/136   (3664 words)

discussion 12 How did the Qin divide up lands and how was this related to their civilizing mission? How did the Qin reform the law and how did this reform relate to the harmonization of the cosmos? How did the Qin reform ritual and how did this reform relate to the harmonization of the cosmos? titicaca.ucsb.edu /cotahuasi/courses/anth196/anth196D12.htm   (447 words)

William Walker (soldier) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Both Walker and Lindsley were Southern Presbyterians who believed in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and in its civilizing mission in the world. Of Scottish descent, Walker was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1824 and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Nashville at the early age of fourteen. William Walker (May 8, 1824- September 12, 1860) was a U.S. physician, lawyer, journalist, adventurer, and soldier of fortune who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries in the mid-19th century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Walker_(soldier)   (1739 words)

History News Network British claims of "civilizing mission" were grossly contradicted by their treatment of Kikuyu moderates, including Jomo Kenyatta, and the long-term damage done to the population by the heavy-handed, decade-long "state of emergency." The Mau Mau attacks, while vicious, were grossly overstated in the British press, which based their reportage on British government sources, resulting in a popular image of the Mau Mau attacks as much more widespread and damaging than they actually were The British response was to screen 1.2 million Kikuyu people for Mau Mau sympathies, which involved dislocating them -- sometimes for years -- and interrogating them. hnn.us /blogs/entries/9781.html   (240 words)

HistoryWiz Books: King Leopold's Ghost Other pivotal figures include Joseph Conrad, whose disgust with Leopold's "civilizing mission" led to Heart of Darkness; and black American journalist George Washington Williams, who wrote the first systematic indictment of Leopold's colonial regime in 1890. The intersection of the boundless egos of Henry M. Stanley (the writer and explorer famous for having found Dr. David Livingstone) and King Leopold II of Belgium resulted in the colonizing of the Congo region of Africa and a period of slave labor, torture, and mass murders to rival the Holocaust. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/leopoldsghost.htm   (2662 words)

The Savvy Traveller - King Leopold's Ghost Other pivotal figures include Joseph Conrad, whose disgust with Leopold's "civilizing mission" led to Heart of Darkness; and black American journalist George Washington Williams, who wrote the first systematic indictment of Leopold's colonial regime in 1890. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travellers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. www.thesavvytraveller.com /insights/geography/africa/central/congo_dr/king_leopolds_ghost.htm   (532 words)

M. Shahid Alam: America's New Civilizing Mission The Evangelists are hoping to achieve more: convert the Muslims to Christianity. The terrorist attacks of 9-11 were gleefully seized by many in the United States as a fresh irruption of the clash of civilizations--between Islamdom and the West. Over the past few decades, with the growing salience of the Israeli-Arab conflict, the re-entry of Islam into the politics of the Islamicate world, and finally with the collapse of the communist challenge, a growing body of thought in the United States has sought to reclaim, to resurrect, this old Western adversary. khalil.org /shahid01152005.html   (2948 words)

UN Chronicle: Civilizing Markets - role of United Nations in international non-governmental standards for business In short, the United Nations must safeguard its image, mission and credibility. The world needs the United Nations to become involved in innovative ways of improving and regulating corporate behaviour, but this must be done in a transparent and accountable manner. However, it is bound to evolve in time, as the pressure from civil society and progressive business to plug the governance gap continues to grow, as illustrated by last year's debacle in Seattle and at the June 2000 protests against the International Monetary Fund. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_2_37/ai_66579847   (2948 words)

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