Liberal Barbarism The European Destruction of the Palace of the Empe
In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a
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Cultural Sociology Series Editors: Jeff ffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, David Inglis, and Philip Smith Cultural sociology is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant areas of inquiry in the social sciences across the world today. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in Cultural Sociology is dedicated to the proposition that deep meanings make a profound difference in social life. Culture is not simply the glue that holds society together, a crutch for the weak, or a mystifying ideology that conceals power. Nor is it just practical knowledge, dry schemas, or knowhow. The series demonstrates how shared and circulating patterns of meaning actively and inescapably penetrate the social. Through codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations, these culture structures drive human action, inspire social movements, direct and build institutions, and so come to shape history. The series takes its lead from the cultural turn in the humanities, but insists on rigorous social science methods and aims at empirical explanations. Contributions engage in thick interpretations but also account for behavioral outcomes. They develop cultural theory but also deploy middle-range tools to challenge reductionist understandings of how the world actually works. In so doing, the books in this series embody the spirit of cultural sociology as an intellectual enterprise. Jeffrey C. Alexanderr is the Lillian Chavenson Saden professor of Sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. From 1995 to 2010, he edited (with Steven Seidman) the Cambridge Series on Cultural Social Studiess and from 2004 to 2009 (with Julia Adams, Ron Eyerman, and Philip Gorsky) Sociological Theoryy. Among his recent books are The Civil Spheree and The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power. r Ron Eyerman is professor of Sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His areas of research include social theory, trauma, and memory, and he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics. He is the author of The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma. David Inglis is professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociologyy, published by Sage. His recent books include The Globalization of Foodd and Cosmopolitanism. Philip Smith is professor and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His recent books include Why War?, ? Punishment and Culturee, and Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Lifee (coauthored) among others. Interpreting Clifford Geertz Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith, and Matthew Norton The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination Ron Eyerman Constructing Irish National Identity Anne Kane Iconic Power Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Dominik Bartma ński, and Bernhard Giesen Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self Nicholas Osbaldiston Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry Ri
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