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Towards a Comparative History of Concepts
Civilisation and beschaving
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
Pim den Boer
Pim den Boer
University of Amsterdam W.denBoer@uva.nl
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Building upon an introductory discussion on linguistic exchange - the problem of missing words - and the emergence of transnational concepts, this article consists of a comparative study of the history of the concept of civilisation in some major European languages and the concept of beschaving in Dutch, the closest translation to civilisation in that language. According to the author, the particular and independent conceptual evolution of beschaving should be in part explained by the early development of a modern socio-economic structure in Holland.