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Synopsis

The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how top-down interventions to improve societies were justified in terms such as nation building, social engineering, humanitarianism, modernization or the spread of democracy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Prof. Dr. Boris Barth is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Charles University, Prague. He has published monographs and many articles on financial imperialism, the stab-in-the-back legend, genocide, and on the crisis of the European democracies in the inter-war years. Rolf Hobson is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and the University of Bergen. He has published studies of modern European political history, war and society and German military history.

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