Western Races and the World (Classic Reprint): Essays Arranged and Edited: Essays Arranged and Edited (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Marvin, F. S.

 
9781330361207: Western Races and the World (Classic Reprint): Essays Arranged and Edited: Essays Arranged and Edited (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Western Races and the World examines how Western influence has shaped global relations, asking what progress and unity really mean across civilizations. This volume surveys the idea of progress in history and tests how western actions have influenced other peoples, from the early days of global exploration to the promises and problems of the League of Nations era.


Through introductory reflections and careful analysis, the collection considers the grounds for claims of Western advancement, the limits of that claim, and the consequences for non-Western societies. It explores how ideas about governance, race, and civilization have evolved, and what responsibility loyalty to a global order entails for both colonizing powers and the nations they touch.



  • Foundational questions about progress, unity, and the modern encounter between West and world

  • Historical perspectives on colonial rule, reform, and the early draft of international law

  • Examinations of the Covenant and mandates within the League of Nations framework

  • Critical look at how power and ethics intersect in international governance


Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, historically grounded view of how Western ideas and global policy have influenced civilizations beyond Europe.

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Excerpt from Western Races and the World: Essays Arranged and Edited

The issue of this - the fifth volume of the Unity Series coincides with the re-issue, in a cheaper form, of the initial volume, The Unity of Western Civilization which suggested the idea and the title of the whole. Each succeeding course of lectures, with its subsequent book, has been suggested by its one or more predecessors. The growth has been a natural one and welcomed as such by an increasing public. There was clearly a need for the persistent presentation of the synthetic aspects of history, for putting in their due prominence those factors in human evolution which have tended to build up a more united mankind.

In this volume we have for the first time extended our view beyond the limits of Western Civilization and con sidered the evolution of the world-relations of Western Races with their less progressive neighbours. The field is so vast and varied that' it has been difficult to hold together, and make any statements applicable to, all the parts. Yet this was essential from the point of view of the series as a whole, and we can only plead in extenua tion of any defects in detail that we have striven, while preserving the notion of one great human problem being solved throughout the world, to do full justice to all the agents in it of whatever race.

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