The urban reformist elites enthusiastically invoked reformative programmes, for example, regulating the disorder of urban space and "civilizing" people.
Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission.
In the town itself, it was hoped the introduction of compulsory education would have a civilizing influence on the urban miscreant.
We are still dealing with an urban middle class project of reform-a civilizing mission-in which gender issues are central.
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.
Elster conjectures that strategic arguing illustrates the more general phenomenon of the 'civilizing effect of hypocrisy'.
The imperial, civilizing values of the age seemed under threat, brazenly challenged and on metropolitan stages too.
