God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945

by Claude Julien Rawson

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We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigor we aspire to, and who have an extraordinary influence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilized metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198184255

ISBN13:9780198184256

Release Date:August 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:420 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"

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