0 extremely cruel and unpleasant behaviour:
A good writer, or speaker, knows a barbarism when he sees one, and realises that not all of them are malignant.
In its more extreme versions it carried racial implications by counterposing civilization (positive) with barbarism (negative).
Barbarism is made and remade - by popular culture no less than by governments - and it can be unmade.
By exalting strife, contention, and bitterness, the tendency of militarism was toward regression and barbarism.
Imperial contact between developmentally distinct cultures promises to accelerate "advancement" of the colonized from barbarism to civilization.
As it had been in the past, the possession of certain objects was the indication of each individual's identity in terms of civilisation and barbarism.
The circle that mankind must tread, is sufficiently limited and, despite the great standstill that barbarism effected, has more than once completed its course.
The works reviewed cover concepts of civilization and barbarism, order and progress which still pepper our modern political discourse.
