Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe

Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilising process. 'Civilizing Emotions' brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilising process

The nature of civilization: the semantics of civilization and civility in Scandinavia / Helge Jordheim -- Great Britain: the creation of an imperial global order / Margrit Pernau -- France: sociability in the imperial republic / Emmanuelle Saada -- Germany: redrawing of civilizational trajectories / Christian Bailey -- The education of Ottoman man and the practives of orderliness / Einar Wigen -- Journeys between civility and wilderness: debates on civilization and emotions in the Arab Middle East, 1861-1939 / Orit Bashkin -- Moral refinement and manhood in Persian / Mana Kia -- The virtuous individual and social reform: debates amon North Indian Urdu speakers / Margrit Pernau -- Spectres of the West: negotiating a civilizational figure in Hindi / Mohinder Singh -- From civilizational heroism to an ethic of universal humanity: Bengali discussions of civility / Rochona Majumdar -- Transforming Chinese hearts, minds, and bodies in the name of progress, civility, and civilization / Angelika C. Messner -- patriotism, virtue, and the clash of civilities in Japanese / Oleg Benesch -- From shame to sympathy: civilization and emotion in Korea, 1860-1920 / Myoungkyu Park -- Afterword: reflections on some challenges / Jan Ifversen

The nature of civilization: the semantics of civilization and civility in Scandinavia / Helge Jordheim -- Great Britain: the creation of an imperial global order / Margrit Pernau -- France: sociability in the imperial republic / Emmanuelle Saada -- Germany: redrawing of civilizational trajectories / Christian Bailey -- The education of Ottoman man and the practives of orderliness / Einar Wigen -- Journeys between civility and wilderness: debates on civilization and emotions in the Arab Middle East, 1861-1939 / Orit Bashkin -- Moral refinement and manhood in Persian / Mana Kia -- The virtuous individual and social reform: debates amon North Indian Urdu speakers / Margrit Pernau -- Spectres of the West: negotiating a civilizational figure in Hindi / Mohinder Singh -- From civilizational heroism to an ethic of universal humanity: Bengali discussions of civility / Rochona Majumdar -- Transforming Chinese hearts, minds, and bodies in the name of progress, civility, and civilization / Angelika C. Messner -- patriotism, virtue, and the clash of civilities in Japanese / Oleg Benesch -- From shame to sympathy: civilization and emotion in Korea, 1860-1920 / Myoungkyu Park -- Afterword: reflections on some challenges / Jan Ifversen