Civilizing emotions : concepts in nineteenth century Asia and Europe / Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim, Emmanuelle Saada, Christian Bailey, Einar Wigen, Orit Bashkin, Mana Kia, Mohinder Singh, Rochona Majumdar, Angelika C. Messner, Oleg Benesch, Myoungkyu Park, and Jan Ifversen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Emotions in history

Emotions in History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Social aspects.

Emotions.

Civilization--History--19th century.

Civilization.

Personality and culture--Asia.

Personality and culture.

Personality and culture--Europe.

History.

Asia.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press 2015.

Summary:

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where Civilizing Emotions intervenes, tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilization and thus adding a level of self-reflexivity to the present debates. Unlike previous histories, Civilizing Emotions takes a global perspective, highlighting the roles of civility and civilization in the creation of a new and hierarchized global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements with the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the creation of a new global order in the nineteenth century. Civilizing Emotions explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies-their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. The study is a contribution to the history of emotions, to global history, and to the history of concepts, three rapidly developing and innovative research areas which are here being brought together for the first time. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-340) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198745532

0198745532

OCLC:

903804194