How Long to Read Barbaric Civilization

How Long Does it Take to Read Barbaric Civilization?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Barbaric Civilization by Christopher John Powell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized? InBarbaric CivilizationChristopher Powell advances a radical thesis to answer these questions: that civilization produces genocides. From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions of the kind that we call "civilized." The combined forward movement of these processes channels violent struggles for social dominance into symbolic performances. But even as the civilizing process frees many subjects from the threat of direct physical force, violence accumulates behind the scenes and at the margins of the social order, kept there by a deeply habituated performance of dominance and subordination called deferentiation. When deferentiation fails, difference becomes dangerous and genocide becomes possible. Connecting historical developments with everyday life occurrences, and discussing examples ranging from thirteenth-century Languedoc to 1994 Rwanda, Powell offers an original framework for analyzing, comparing, and discussing genocides as variable outcomes of a common underlying social system, raising unsettling questions about the contradictions of Western civilization and the possibility of a world without genocide.

How long is Barbaric Civilization?

Barbaric Civilization by Christopher John Powell is 366 pages long, and a total of 93,696 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Barbaric Civilization Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Barbaric Civilization aloud.

What Reading Level is Barbaric Civilization?

Barbaric Civilization is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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