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The violence that the banana goliath’s civilizing mission unleashes upon the Colombian landscape and its people is not a bug.
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Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
The United Kingdom’s nineteenth-century civilizing mission, although rarely mentioned in Stern’s work, was an article of faith at home and in the empire.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
The transition from raw wood to finished object also speaks to traditional ideas of civilizing — something education is supposed to do — and to humans’ vast debt to nature.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
The United Kingdom’s nineteenth-century civilizing mission, although rarely mentioned in Stern’s work, was an article of faith at home and in the empire.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
The transition from raw wood to finished object also speaks to traditional ideas of civilizing — something education is supposed to do — and to humans’ vast debt to nature.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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“Civilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civilize. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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