Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c.1830–2000 PDF
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Evil, Barbarism and Empire AlsobyTomCrook Edited,withGlenO’Hara,STATISTICSANDTHEPUBLICSPHERE:Numbersand thePeopleinModernBritain,c.1800–2000 AlsobyBertrandTaithe THEKILLERTRAIL:AColonialScandalintheHeartofAfrica CITIZENSHIPANDWARS:FranceinTurmoil1870–1871 DEFEATEDFLESH:Welfare,WarfareandtheMakingofModernFrance THEESSENTIALMAYHEW:RepresentingandCommunicatingthePoor With K. Hirschkop, Peter Buse, and Scott McCracken, BENJAMIN’S ARCADES: AnUnguidedTour Edited, with Christopher E. Forth, FRENCH MASCULINITIES: History, Politics andCulture 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 Editorialmatter,selectionandintroduction©TomCrook,RebeccaGilland BertrandTaithe2011 Allremainingchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-24127-5 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. 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Crook,Tom,1977– DA533.E952011 941.08—dc22 2011013741 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 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 v vi Contents 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 vii 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. viii 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). ix
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