Empires And Peninsulas

Author : Plamen Mitev
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643106117

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Empires and Peninsulas by Plamen Mitev Pdf

Three powerful empires - the Habsburg, the Ottoman and the Russian - spent the 18th and the first third of the 19th centuries fighting each other for power and influence in the Balkans. This is not, however, the only significant aspect of the complicated history of the European Southeast. The intellectual and economic currents that turned the 18th century into a key event in human civilisation were refracted through the prism of Balkan regionalism. The 130 years between Karlowitz and Adrianople were able to steer the Southeast back onto the rails of a "Common European History". The volume contains the proceedings of an international conference hosted by the Sofia University Faculty of History in October 2009.

Author : Adrian Howkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190249144

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Frozen Empires by Adrian Howkins Pdf

Frozen Empires is a study of the ways in which imperial powers (American, European, and South American) have used and continue to use the environment and the value of scientific research to support their political claims in the Antarctic Peninsula region. In making a case for imperial continuity, this book offers a new perspective on Antarctic history and on global environmental politics more broadly.

Author : Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9633861772

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Imagined Empires by Dimitris Stamatopoulos Pdf

The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752729

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Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather Pdf

Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.

Author : Alexandru Madgearu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0810858460

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The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula by Alexandru Madgearu Pdf

The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history. Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states-prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies-then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts. Book jacket.

Author : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : CHI:44340329

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The Balkan Peninsula and the Near East by Ferdinand Schevill Pdf

Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611683226

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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity by Glen Warren Bowersock Pdf

Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam

Author : Thomas S. Harrington
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611485622

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Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900–1925 by Thomas S. Harrington Pdf

This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal, works that are absolutely central to understanding the discursive architecture of collective identity in these same places today. They are as follows: Enric Prat de la Riba's La Nacionalitat Catalana (1906), Teixeira de Pascoaes' Arte de Ser Português (1915),Vicente Risco's Teoría do Nacionalismo Galego (1920), and José Ortega y Gasset's España invertebrada (1921). The study consists of a discussion of some of the more important theoretical issues connected to social articulation of cultural identities, four chapter-long analyses of the textual manifestations of national identity within the major Romance-language communities of the Iberian peninsula, and a conclusion which underscores the key function played by these public intellectuals in establishing the parameters of the “Imagined Communities” with which they felt primarily identified. On the most basic level, the study of these “catechistic” visions of national individuality provides a heightened sense of both the differences and commonalities inherent in the cultural traditions of these core nationality groups of the Iberian Peninsula. On another level, the study reminds us of the important pedagogical function of literature (understood here in the broadest possible sense) in the formation and maintenance of nationality identities then, as well as now.

Author : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811308338

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Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668 by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla Pdf

This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period’s economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.

Author : Emile de Laveleye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UCAL:$B547044

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The Balkan Peninsula by Emile de Laveleye Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004407671

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Empires of the Sea by Anonim Pdf

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Author : Pinar Aykaç
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793641694

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Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula by Pinar Aykaç Pdf

This book explores how the museum concept has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself through musealization. Articulating the musealization of historic cities as a specific urban process, the book here presents a study of the transformation of the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul’s historic peninsula, which has been the major focus of planning, conservation and museological studies in Turkey since the 19th century as the public face of the city. The author aims to offer empirically grounded and context-specific insight into the role of museums in the regeneration of historic cities. Musealization as an urban process varies in different geographical, cultural and ideological contexts, and across different time periods. By discussing the Sultanahmet district as a specific context of yet another city subjected to the musealization process, this book provides further insights into this important global phenomenon.

Author : Howard M. Hensel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000651171

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Security Dynamics in The Gulf and The Arabian Peninsula by Howard M. Hensel Pdf

This book focuses on security dynamics in the contemporary Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. It highlights the development of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, the contemporary challenges and opportunities confronting the principal powers that are active in this important sub-region, and analyzes and evaluates their policy responses. The various perspectives of the chapters all suggest that the stability and security of the Gulf sub-region is now and will continue in the future to be of vital importance to the global community. The chapters that compose the volume are organized into three thematic sections. Part I, ‘Security Challenges and Power Configurations in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula: The Historical Context’, comprises three chapters. Part II, consisting of seven chapters, is entitled, ‘Contemporary Security Challenges and Opportunities in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.’ Part III, ‘Contemporary National Interests, Objectives, and Strategies of the Major Powers in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula’, comprises five chapters. Finally, the volume ends with a concluding chapter. Unfortunately, the contemporary unstable, heterogeneous Gulf sub-region is fraught with extremely serious and often urgent challenges that threaten the sub-region’s security. This volume helps to illuminate the nature of the sub-regional environment and the contemporary challenges and opportunities that confront the various powers that are active in the Gulf. It also contributes to a greater understanding of the interests, contemporary objectives, and strategies of those powers as they formulate and implement policies in response to the challenges and opportunities that they confront. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, Middle Eastern politics and International Relations.

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Geography
ISBN : PRNC:32101055189441

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The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: East Asia: Chinese empire, Corea, and Japan by Elisée Reclus Pdf

Author : Edward Henry Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : British
ISBN : OXFORD:590724801

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The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 by Edward Henry Nolan Pdf