{"product_id":"civilizing-war-nasser-mufti-9780810136038","title":"Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture Volume 28","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Graduate Schools \u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention for the 2019 Sonya Rudikoff Prize, awarded by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist protectionism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCivilizing War\u003c\/i\u003e, Nasser Mufti situates this contemporary conjuncture in the long history of British imperialism, demonstrating how civil war has been and continues to be integral to the politics of empire. Through comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis, \u003ci\u003eCivilizing War\u003c\/i\u003e shows how writers and intellectuals of Britain's Anglophone empire articulated a \"poetics of national rupture\" that defined the metropolitan nation and its colonial others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mufti's tour de force marshals a wealth of examples as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Benjamin Disraeli, Friedrich Engels, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Michael Ondaatje to examine the variety of forms this poetics takes--metaphors, figures, tropes, puns, and plot--all of which have played a central role in Britain's civilizing mission and its afterlife. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eCivilizing War\u003c\/i\u003e shifts the terms of Edward Said's influential \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e to suggest that imperialism was not only organized around the norms of civility but also around narratives of civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nasser Mufti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810136031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810136038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Nasser Mufti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46250449666303,"sku":"9780810136038","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04f26258-f270-4797-b096-9f3e58595da4.jpg?v=1729600355","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/civilizing-war-nasser-mufti-9780810136038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}