Author : R. A. Hazzard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 6612028424
Imagination of a Monarchy
R. A. Hazzard
Imagination Of A Monarchy
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Imagination of a Monarchy
R. A. Hazzard
Author : R. A. Hazzard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802043135
Imagination of a Monarchy by R. A. Hazzard Pdf
Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC, but the details of this change have proven problematic. This book presents a clear argument based on the author's theories.
Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World
Aaron W. Irvin
Author : Aaron W. Irvin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119630708
Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World by Aaron W. Irvin Pdf
A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing of ideas was occurring in the time period, and applies modern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data. A new generation of international scholars challenge traditional views of Classical history and offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas—insights that resonate with similar issues today. This singular resource presents a broad, multi-national view rarely found in western collected volumes, including Serbian, Macedonian, and Russian scholarship on the Roman Empire, as well as on Roman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics include Egyptian identity in the Hellenistic world, cultural identity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, the provincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, and Soviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism. Serving as a synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the wider topic of identity and community, this volume: Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations Offers several views of metascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well as for those working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time.
The Pleasures of the Imagination
John Brewer
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912369
The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer Pdf
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
"Good Coup" Gone Bad
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Author : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814459600
"Good Coup" Gone Bad by Pavin Chachavalpongpun Pdf
What did the 2006 military coup show us? It demonstrated that the crux of the Thai crisis is far more serious and much wider in scope than had previously been thought. The monarchy is surely not a victim in the protracted conflict, but the root cause and continuing factor that has eroded Thai politics. The coup set in motion more prejudicial uses of the lèse-majesté law, and in the process, has led to more political prisoners. It has also shredded the military into several segments, turning generals into desperate royalists who continue to live off the monarchy in order to survive. Issues of violence in the Thai south and the Thai-Cambodian dispute became greatly intensified in the age of militarized politics. The coup also produced unique colour-coded politics and created crises of legitimacy. This book is a collection of essays that reflect developments in Thai politics in the post-coup period.
The Limits of Loyalty
Laurence Cole,Daniel L. Unowsky
Author : Laurence Cole,Daniel L. Unowsky
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 184545202X
The Limits of Loyalty by Laurence Cole,Daniel L. Unowsky Pdf
"This fine collection on competing political loyalties in the late Habsburg Monarchy is framed by clear research questions.The dynasty faced formidable competitors in its own crownlands, cities and villages. [This volume] presents this competition in vibrant and varied case studies. From it readers will take a sampling of some of the best recent scholarship on the Habsburg Monarchy." - Slavonic and East European Review "Any future discussion on the last years of the Habsburg Monarchy's political history should build on this collection's significant achievements whether the point of departure is the monarchy's ultimate failure or a decidedly a-teleological perspective...It is not a book that only critiques the old; but it also points to the possibility of something new, and arguably more exciting." - H-Net Reviews "[The] rich case studies and vivid vignettes...[offer] the first coherent attempt in examining the efforts to generate dynastic-oriented patriotism and the responses to these efforts.[T]his book contains many seeds for a more nuanced and sophisticated discussion of the late monarchy. It is not a book that only critiques the old; but it also points to the possibility of something new, and arguably more exciting." - Habsburg "There is a welcome intellectual coherence and high scholarship to this latest volume in Berghahn's series on Austrian and Habsburg Studies." - German History The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state and society which tended toward the promotion of state unity and loyalty towards the ruling house. These essays, all original contributions and written by an international group of historians, provide a critical examination of the phenomenon of "dynastic patriotism" and offer a richly nuanced treatment of the multinational empire in its final phase.
God Save the Queen
Dennis Altman
Author : Dennis Altman
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925938975
God Save the Queen by Dennis Altman Pdf
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies. When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be five monarchs left at the end of the century: the kings of hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades, and England. To date, his prediction has proved wrong, and while the twentieth century saw the collapse of monarchies across Europe, many democratic societies have retained them. God Save the Queen is the first book to look at constitutional monarchies globally, and is particularly relevant given the pro-democracy movement in Thailand and recent scandals around the British and Spanish royal families. Is monarchy merely a feudal relic that should be abolished, or does the division between ceremonial and actual power act as a brake on authoritarian politicians? And what is the role of monarchy in the independent countries of the Commonwealth that have retained the Queen as head of state? This book suggests that monarchy deserves neither the adulation of the right nor the dismissal of the left. In an era of autocratic populism, does constitutional monarchy provide some safeguards against the megalomania of political leaders? Is a President Boris potentially more dangerous than a Prime Minister Boris?
The Culture of History
Billie Melman
Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199296880
The Culture of History by Billie Melman Pdf
"In this researched book, Billie Melman takes us on a voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. Exploring the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations, and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history, she reveals how during the nineteenth century the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it as dangerous, disorderly, and violent."--BOOK JACKET.
The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present
Andrzej Olechnowicz
Author : Andrzej Olechnowicz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521844611
The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present by Andrzej Olechnowicz Pdf
What has been the function of monarchy in the political and social life of Britain?
The Monarchy of Fear
Martha C. Nussbaum
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501172519
The Monarchy of Fear by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today’s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next.
Royal Tourism
Phil Long,Nicola J. Palmer
Author : Phil Long,Nicola J. Palmer
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845410803
Royal Tourism by Phil Long,Nicola J. Palmer Pdf
The relationships between tourism and royalty have received little coverage in the tourism literature. This volume provides a critical exploration of the relationships between royalty and tourism past, present, and future from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Imagining The State
Neocleous, Mark
Author : Neocleous, Mark
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335203512
Imagining The State by Neocleous, Mark Pdf
In this book Mark Neocleous explores such questions through a critique of what he describes as the statist political imaginary. Unpicking this imaginary while also avoiding traditional approaches to state power, the book examines the way that the state has been imagined in terms traditionally associated with human subjectivity: body, mind, personality and home.
The Numismatic Chronicle
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : UVA:X030364865
The Numismatic Chronicle by Anonim Pdf
"The rules of the Numismatic Society of London" bound with New Ser., v. 1.
The Papal Monarchy
Colin Morris
Author : Colin Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198269250
The Papal Monarchy by Colin Morris Pdf
Traces the influence and legacy of the Roman Catholic Church across two centuries (1050-1250 AD). The text describes folklore and church architecture as well as the Crusades, the Inquisition, papal government, the College of Cardinals, the confessional, chivalry, hospitals and marriage.
Divided Empire
Robert Thomas Fallon
Author : Robert Thomas Fallon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271071558
Divided Empire by Robert Thomas Fallon Pdf
In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic. Milton's works are crowded with political figures—kings, counselors, senators, soldiers, and envoys—all engaged in a comparable variety of public acts—debate, decree, diplomacy, and warfare—in a manner similar to those who exercised power on the world stage during his time in public office. Traditionally, scholars have cited this imagery for two purposes: first, to support studies of the poet's political allegiances as reflected in his prose and his life; and, second, to demonstrate that his works are sympathetic to certain ideological positions popular in present times. Fallon argues that Paradise Lost is not a political testament, however, and to read its lines as a critique of allegiances and ideologies outside the work is limit the range and scope of critical inquiry and to miss the larger purpose of the political imagery within the poem. That imagery, the author proposes, like that of all Milton's later works, serves to illuminate the spiritual message, a vision of the human soul caught up in the struggle between vast metaphysical forces of good and evil. Fallon seeks to enlarge the range of critical inquiry by assessing the influence of personal and historical events upon art, asking, as he puts it, "not what the poetry says about the events, but what the events say about the poetry." Divided Empire probes, not Milton's judgment on his sources, but the use he made of them.