Civilization as a Political Concept

* Book: Readings in B. Bowden (ed.) (2009) Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science, London & New York: Routledge

Contents

- Bierstedt, R., ‘Indices of civilization’, Vol.1: 330-340

- Carneiro, R.L., ‘A reappraisal of the roles of technology and organization in the origin of civilization’, Vol.2: 271-281

- Elias, N. ‘Technization and civilization’, Vol.2: 220-249

- Elias, N. ‘The social constraint towards self-constraint’, Vol.2: 202-219

- Blatt, J. ‘“To bring out the best that is in their blood”: race, reform, and civilization in the Journal of Race Development (1910-1919)’, Vol.3: 242-259. [DT note: the JRD is the forerunner of the leading and arguably most influential international relations periodical, Foreign Affairs, which has featured, amongst many others, Huntington’s original essay on the ‘clash of civilizations’.]

- Buchan, B. ‘The empire of political thought: civilisation, savagery and perceptions of Indigenous government’, Vol.3: 82-103

- Francis, M. ‘The “civilizing’ of indigenous people in 19th-century Canada’, Vol.3: 28-61

- Huntington, S.P. ‘If not civilizations, what? Paradigms of the post-Cold War world’, Vol.3: 130-139.

- Kraynak, R.P. ‘Hobbes on barbarism and civilization’, Vol.1: 219-241

- Mazlish, B. ‘Civilization in a historical and global perspective’, Vol.3: 1-7

- Pagden, A. ‘The “defence of civilization” in 18th-century social theory’, Vol. 1: 242-254

- Dabashi, H. ‘For the last time: civilizations’, Vol.3: 419-425.

- Goudsblom, J. ‘Civilization: the career of a controversial concept’, Vol.1: 378-388