The States of the Earth keyword-the-internet A bracing riposte to the

A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization

Octave Mannoni worked in France

faced by a German outlaw whose chemical and air weapons would make it an ever greater threat

saw towns in rubble more than a year after the colossal earthquake in Sichuan

was to cope with the increasing problems of class conflict and industrial unrest in Europe as the 19th century progressed towards its hour of reckoning in the First World War

The States of the Earth keyword-the-internet A bracing riposte to theWhile industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature. Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are