Civilization, (4 Volume Set)

Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of ‘civilization’ has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and explain the world in which we live. The events of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, have further elevated the concept's use in the discourse of politics and international relations. There has, for instance, been feverish speculation and increasingly heated rhetoric about struggles ‘for civilization’ or a possible ‘clash of civilizations’, particularly between the West and the Islamic world. The term is used both to describe - and to cast value-laden judgements about - people, places, and events. It is often misinterpreted and misapplied, with sometimes dangerous consequences.

In response to the revival and misuse of ‘civilization’, this new four-volume collection from Routledge Major Works meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a vast and growing scholarly literature. It brings together canonical and the best cutting-edge research to provide a comprehensive overview of the origins, contested meanings, contextual applications, and general history of this critical concept.

Volume I (‘The Origins and Meaning of Civilization’) is made up of the best work from a distinguished line-up of political scientists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, and linguists. It outlines the origins of the concept and its many and disputed meanings. This first volume establishes the foundations on which much of the analysis included in the three subsequent volumes is based. Volume II (‘Civilization, Civilizations, Progress, and History’) includes a range of materials that intimately outline the relationship between the ideal of civilization and the idea of progress, including progress in the social, cultural, moral, scientific, and political realms. Research gathered here further examines how the concepts of civilization and progress in turn relate to the more general passage of history, particularly the idea of history with a purpose. Volume III (‘Civilization and its Others’) brings together the best scholarship to explore what civilization is not. The scholarship collected here comes from some of history’s most distinguished political scientists, leading international lawyers, anthropologists, and controversial ethnologists. Can one, for example, usefully draw a distinction between civilized, savage, and barbarian peoples? The final volume (‘Civilizational Relations: Past, Present, and Future’) enables researchers and students to navigate through the equally sensitive field of historical and contemporary relations between the world’s major civilizations or religio-cultural groups. It includes the catalysts of debates such as ‘the clash-of-civilizations thesis’ and the responses it has provoked.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Civilization is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers of politics, political philosophy, and international relations - as well as those working in allied disciplines such as security studies and international law - as a vital research resource.

Volume I : The Origins and Meaning of Civilization

Chapter 1 : Civilization’, Keywords
Chapter 2 : What is Civilization?’, Ladies’ Home Journa
Chapter 3 : What Civilization Means, The New Leviathan
Chapter 4 : The History of Civilization in Europe
Chapter 5 : Civilization’, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
Chapter 6 : Civilisation : Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas’, A New Kind of History : From The Writings of Febvre
Chapter 7 : Civilization : A Contribution to The History of The Word’, Problems in General Linguistics, trans : Mary Elizabeth Meek
Chapter 8 : On The Origins of Civilisation : A Historical Note’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1985
Chapter 9 : The Word Civilization’, Blessings in Disguise; or The Morality of Evil, trans : Arthur Goldhammer
Chapter 10 : The Civilizing Process
Chapter 11 : Hobbes on Barbarism and Civilization’, Journal of Politics, 1983
Chapter 12 : The "Defence of Civilization" in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory’, History of The Human Sciences, 1988
Chapter 13 : On The Scottish Origin of "Civilization"’, Enduring Western Civilization : The Construction of The Concept of Western Civilization and its ‘OThers
Chapter 14 : The History of Civilizations : The Past Explains The Present’, On History, trans : Sarah MatThews
Chapter 15 : Note on The Notion of Civilization’, Social Research, 1971
Chapter 16 : Civilization and Culture’, Sociology and Social Research, 1936
Chapter 17 : Indices of Civilization’, American Journal of Sociology, 1966
Chapter 18 : The The Ideal of Civilisation : Its Origins and Socio-Political Character’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2004
Chapter 19 : The Origins and Importance of The Concept of Civilization’, Civilization and its Contents
Chapter 20 : Civilization : The Career of a Controversial Concept’, History and Theory, 2006
Chapter 21 : Civilization’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2006
Chapter 22 : Global Civilization and Local Cultures : A Crude Look at The Whole’, International Sociology, 2001
Chapter 23 : American Civilization’, The American Civilizing Process

Volume II : Civilization, Civilizations, Progress, and History
Chapter 24 : The Idea of Progress in Historiography and Social Thought Since The Enlightenment, Progress and its Discontents
Chapter 25 : The Nature and Value of Universal History : An Inaugural Lecture
Chapter 26 : The Science of Culture’, Primitive Culture
Chapter 27 : Ancient Society, or Researches in The Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization
Chapter 28 : Barbarism and Civilization’, The Origin of The Family, Private Property and The State
Chapter 29 : The Continuity of Civilizations’, A History of Civilizations, trans : Richard Mayne
Chapter 30 : The Shape of History’, A Study of History
Chapter 31 : My View of History’ and ‘Civilization on Trial’, Civilization on Trial
Chapter 32 : Introduction’, Decline of The West, trans : Charles Francis Atkinson
Chapter 33 : Spengler’s Theory of Civilization’, Thesis Eleven, 2000
Chapter 34 : Is There a European Civilisation?’, History in a Changing World
Chapter 35 : The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint’, The Civilizing Process
Chapter 36 : Technization and Civilization’, Theory, Culture and Society, 1995
Chapter 37 : Decivilizing Processes : Theoretical Significance and Some Lines of Research’, International Sociology, 1990
Chapter 38 : A Reappraisal of The Roles of Technology and Organization in The Origin of Civilization’, American Antiquity, 1974
Chapter 39 : The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis’, Thesis Eleven, 2000
Chapter 40 : A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing Progress and Social Change’, International Sociology, 2001
Chapter 41 : Civilization and The Civilizing Process : Elias, Globalization and Analytic SynThesis’, Theory, Culture and Society, 1992
Chapter 42 : In The Name of Progress and Peace : The "Standard of Civilization" and The Universalizing Project’, Alternatives : Global, Local, Political, 2004

Volume III : Civilization and its OThers

Chapter 43 : Civilization in a Historical and Global Perspective’, International Sociology, 2001
Chapter 44 : The Racial Basis of Civilization
Chapter 45 : Race’, Race and Civilisation
Chapter 46 : The "Civilizing" of Indigenous People in Nineteenth-Century Canada’, Journal of World History, 1998
Chapter 47 : The Barbarism of Civilization : Cultural Genocide and The "Stolen Generations"’, British Journal of Sociology, 1999
Chapter 48 : The Empire of Political Thought : Civilization, Savagery and Perceptions of Indigenous Government’, History of The Human Sciences, 2005
Chapter 49 : Civilization and Savagery in The Crucible of War’, Global Change, Peace & Security, 2007
Chapter 50 : The Juridical Expression of The Sacred Trust of Civilization’, American Journal of International Law, 1971
Chapter 51 : Finding The Peripheries : Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law’, Harvard International Law Journal, 1999
Chapter 52 : The Colonial Origins of International Law : European Expansion and The Classical Standard of Civilisation’, Journal of The History of International Law, 2005
Chapter 53 : "‘To Bring Out The Best that is in Their Blood" : Race, Reform, and Civilization in The Journal of Race Development (1910–1919)
Chapter 54 : The Discourse of Civilization and Decolonization’, Journal of World History, 2004
Chapter 55 : The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism’, Journal of World History, 2001
Chapter 56 : The Standard of Civilisation in International Law, Current Legal Problems
Chapter 57 : The Standard of "Civilization"’, The Standard of ‘Civilization’ in International Society
Chapter 58 : Human Rights : A New Standard of Civilization’, International Affairs, 1998
Chapter 59 : The Return of The Standard of Civilization’, Chicago Journal of International Law, 2001
Chapter 60 : Standards of Civilization Today, Globalization and Civilizations
Chapter 61 : The Transformationalist Perspective and The Rise of a Global Standard of Civilization’, International Relations of The Asia-Pacific, 2001
Chapter 62 : On The Return of The "Civilizing Project"’, Daedalus, 2002
Chapter 63 : For The Last Time : Civilizations’, International Sociology, 2001

Volume IV : Civilizational Relations : Past, Present, and Future

Chapter 64 : Relations Between Civilizations’, Democracy in World Politics
Chapter 65 : Thinking about Civilizations’, Review of International Studies, 2000
Chapter 66 : Norbert Elias, The "Civilizing Process" and The Sociology of International Relations’, International Politics, 2004
Chapter 67 : International Encounters of AnoTher Kind’, Global Society, 1997
Chapter 68 : Chinese Encounters with OTher Civilizations’, International Sociology, 2001
Chapter 69 : The Clash of Civilizations?’, Foreign Affairs, 1993
Chapter 70 : If Not Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to His Critics’, Foreign Affairs, 1993
Chapter 71 : Civilisational Conflict? Looking for Cultural Enemies’, Third World Quarterly, 1995
Chapter 72 : The Second Clash : Huntington, Mahan, and Civilizations’, Harvard International Review, 1997
Chapter 73 : Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations : Misunderstanding The Present’, International Affairs, 1998
Chapter 74 : Samuel Huntington’s Moral Geography’, Theory & Event, 1999
Chapter 75 : The New Cult of Civilizational Superiority’, Theory & Event, 1999
Chapter 76 : If Not a Clash, Then What? Huntington, Nishida Kitarô and The Politics of Civilizations’, International Relations of The Asia-Pacific, 2002
Chapter 77 : Civilizational Conflicts : More Frequent, Longer, and Bloodier?’, Journal of Peace Research, 2004
Chapter 78 : Ethnic Minorities and The Clash of Civilizations : A Quantitative Analysis of Huntington’s Thesis’, British Journal of Political Science, 2002
Chapter 79 : United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations’, Report of The Secretary General
Chapter 80 : Alliance of Civilizations’, Report of The High-Level Group
Chapter 81 : Forging World Order Paradigms : "Good Civilization" vs : "Global Terror"’, Security Dialogue, 2001
Chapter 82 : Tolerance as/in Civilizational Discourse’, Redescriptions : Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History, 2004
Chapter 83 : The River of Inter-Civilisational Relations : The Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas and Innovations’, Third World Quarterly, 2007
Chapter 84 : Reconstructing International Relations Through World History : Oriental Globalization and The Global–Dialogic Conception of Inter-Civilizational Relations’, International Politics, 2007
Chapter 85 : Beyond Sovereignty : An Emerging Global Civilization, Contending Sovereignties : Redefining Political Community
Chapter 86 : Towards a Universal Civilization’, Preventing The Clash of Civilization : A Peace Strategy for The Twenty-First Century
Chapter 87 : Towards a Universal Civilization’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2000
Chapter 88 : Towards a Common Civilization’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2000
Chapter 89 : Civilizations and The Twenty-First Century : Some Theoretical Considerations’, International Relations of The Asia Pacific, 2001
Chapter 90 : Civilization Need Not Die’, Harvard Magazine
Chapter 91 : Empire or Cosmopolis? Civilization at The Crossroads’, Globalizations, 2005