Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century最新文献

Nation-Building, Concepts of Space and Civilizing Mission in the Early Second Republic of Poland 波兰第二共和国初期的国家建设、空间概念与文明使命

Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004438125_004

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Ambiguities of the Domestic Civilizing Mission: Technocratic Elites and Social Engineering in Interwar Europe 国内文明使命的模糊性:两次世界大战之间欧洲的技术官僚精英和社会工程

Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004438125_005

B. Barth

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The Democratic Peace Controversy in Retrospect as a “Civilizing Mission”? a Theory Revisited 作为“文明使命”回顾的民主和平之争?重新审视的理论

Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004438125_008

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Lilliputians for Peace: Scandinavian Internationalism and International Disarmament c. 1880–1940 利力浦特人争取和平:斯堪的纳维亚国际主义和国际裁军(1880-1940)

Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004438125_006

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The Cultural Transformation of America’s Civilizing Mission in the Twentieth Century 20世纪美国文明使命的文化转型

Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004438125_003

F. Ninkovich

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