In other words, the 'imperial order' has existed in non-western areas, where most of those nations were not recognized as civilized throughout the nineteenth century.
They do not merely speak for a straightforward attempt to make the civilizing power of science operative in the reader's mind.
There is an acceptance within the text that increasingly the local state took control over the civilizing mission previously exercised by a ubiquitous voluntary sector.
Various "civilized" measures to suppress differences and heterogeneity in the use of space were only provoking resistive spatial practices among the residents.
A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men.
The fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarian nations meant that while this perceived society was international, in no sense was it global.
Their task was to convince doubting officials that they, too, could be counted as agents of civilizing progress.
The myth portrayed the transformation of a violent abduction into the civilized social alliance sanctioned by the marriage bond.
