Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c.1830–2000

293 Pages·2011·2.26 MB·English

by  Tom Crook

Evil, Barbarism and Empire
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Evil, Barbarism and Empire
Britain and Abroad, c. 1830–2000
Editedby
Tom Crook
LecturerinModernBritishHistory,OxfordBrookesUniversity,UK
Rebecca Gill
LecturerinModernBritishHistory,UniversityofHuddersfield,UK
and
Bertrand Taithe
ProfessorofCulturalHistory,UniversityofManchester,UK
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1. GreatBritain—Civilization—19thcentury. 2. GreatBritain—
Civilization—20thcentury. 3. Goodandevil—Socialaspects—Great
Britain—History—19thcentury. 4. Goodandevil—Socialaspects—
GreatBritain—History—20thcentury. 5. Imperialism—Social
aspects—GreatBritain—History—19thcentury. 6. Imperialism—Social
aspects—GreatBritain—History—20thcentury.
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Contents
ListofFigures vii
Acknowledgements viii
NotesonContributors ix
1 LiberalCivilisationandItsDiscontents:Evil,Barbarism
andEmpire 1
TomCrook,RebeccaGillandBertrandTaithe
Part I MetropolitanEvils
2 EvilinQuestion:TheVictorianSocialandthePoliticsof
Prostitution,1830–1900 33
TomCrook
3 Terror,SpectacleandthePress:AnarchistOutragein
EdwardianEngland 54
DavidSpeicher
4 ‘AndIamtheGodofDestruction!’:FuManchuandthe
ConstructionofAsiaticEvilintheNovelsofArthur
SarsfieldWard,1912–1939 73
AntonyTaylor
Part II ImperialEvils
5 ThePoliticsofItalianism:Reynolds’sNewspaper,theIndian
Mutiny,andtheRadicalCritiqueofLiberalImperialismin
Mid-VictorianBritain 99
EugenioF.Biagini
6 TheVictorianLexiconofEvil:FredericHarrison,the
PositivistsandtheLanguageofInternationalPolitics 126
H.S.Jones
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Part III GeopoliticsofEvil
7 Evil,LiberalismandtheImperialDesignsoftheCatholic
Church,1867–1905 147
BertrandTaithe
8 ‘NowIhaveseenevil,andIcannotbesilentaboutit’:
ArnoldJ.ToynbeeandhisEncounterswithAtrocity,
1915–1923 172
RebeccaGill
9 AtrocityNarrativesandInter-ImperialRivalry:
Britain,GermanyandtheTreatmentof‘NativeRaces’,
1904–1939 201
ChristinaTwomey
Part IV AgentsofEvil
10 Conrad’sHorror:HeartofDarknessandtheImaginaryof
Power 229
ThomasOsborne
11 TheLivesofOthers:TheDefeatofEvilortheEvilofDefeat? 246
ScottMcCracken
12 Islam,ViolenceandtheNewBarbarism 267
TimJacoby
Index 283
List of Figures
CoverImage:‘TheNewCrusade’,Punch,ortheLondonCharivari,30Nov.
1889. (cid:2)c Punch Ltd. Caption: ‘The Anti-Slavery Conference opened at
BrusselsonNovember18.Alltheplenipotentiarieswerethere–Times.’
4.1 FrontcoverofDrNikola(London,1896).Author’scopy.
PicturebytheartistStanleyL.Wood(1866–1928) 77
4.2 Coverartanddistinctivelogo-letteringofStrangeDetective
Mysteries(cid:2)c 1939PopularPublications,Inc.Copyright
renewedin1961andassignedtoKeithDeutsch,
successor-in-interesttoPopularPublicationsInc.Usedby
permission 85
7.1 ‘TippuTip,thekingoftheSlaveTrade’.Bykind
authorisationoftheArchivesdesMissionnairesd’Afrique
AGMAfr 157
7.2 ‘AfriqueÉquatoriale,ArabesEsclavagistes’c.1895.
BykindauthorisationoftheArchivesdesMissionnaires
d’AfriqueAGMAfr 159
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Acknowledgements
ThisbookarisesfromaworkshopheldattheUniversityofManchester
inJune,2008.Theeditorswouldliketoacknowledgethefinancialsup-
port of the following institutions: the British Academy; the Institute
for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes University; and
the University of Manchester. Thanks also to Stephen Byrne for help
inpreparingthetypescript.
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Notes on Contributors
Eugenio F. Biagini is Reader in Modern British and European History
at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge. His publications include Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform:
Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860–1880 (1992), Gladstone
(2000)andBritishDemocracyandIrishNationalism,1876–1906(2007).
TomCrookisLecturerinModernBritishHistoryatOxfordBrookesUni-
versity.HehaspublishedinjournalssuchasUrbanHistory,SocialHistory
and Past and Present. He is currently working on a book entitled Time
andtheSocialBody:PublicHealthandEnglishModernity,1830–1914.
Rebecca Gill is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University
of Huddersfield. Her work concerns the history of humanitarian orga-
nizations in Britain since 1870. Her first book, entitled Calculating
Compassion: British Humanitarian Relief in War, 1870–1918, comes out
in2012.
Tim Jacoby is Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies at the Institute for
Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. He
has published widely on the historical sociology of state formation
(especiallyTurkey)andpoliticalviolence.HismostrecentbookisUnder-
standingConflictandViolence:InterdisciplinaryandTheoreticalApproaches
(2007).
H.S. Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of
Manchester.Hehaspublishedwidelyonthehistoryofpoliticalthought
innineteenth-centuryBritainandFrance.HismostrecentbookisIntel-
lectandCharacterinVictorianEngland:MarkPattisonandtheInventionof
theDon(2007).
Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University and
co-editorofNewFormations:AJournalofCulture/Theory/Politics.Hismain
researchinterestsareinmodernism,gender,criticaltheoryandpopular
fiction. His most recent book is Masculinities, Modernist Fictions and the
UrbanPublicSphere(2007).
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