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Author : Jakub J. Grygiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107158573
Reveals the threat of violent non-state actors throughout history and the lessons that are applicable to current security challenges.
Author : Jakub J. Grygiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108671491
Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reality in groups such as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIL. Return of the Barbarians re-examines the threat of violent non-state actors throughout history, revealing key lessons that are applicable today. From the Roman Empire and its barbarian challenge on the Danube and Rhine, Russia and the steppes to the nineteenth-century Comanches, Jakub J. Grygiel shows how these groups have presented peculiar, long-term problems that could rarely be solved with a finite war or clearly demarcated diplomacy. To succeed and survive, states were often forced to alter their own internal structure, giving greater power and responsibility to the communities most directly affected by the barbarian menace. Understanding the barbarian challenge, and strategies employed to confront it, offers new insights into the contemporary security threats facing the Western world.
Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774634
Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents
Author : Shao-yun Yang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746012
Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.
Author : Mircea Dinescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780372051
Author : Algis Budrys
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649740557
History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas.
Author : Ralph W. Mathisen,Danuta Shanzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061687
One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an updated selection of the papers given on that occasion, complemented with a few others,. These 25 studies do much to break down old stereotypes about the cultural and social segregation of Roman and barbarian populations, and demonstrate that, contrary to the past orthodoxy, Romans and barbarians interacted in a multitude of ways, and it was not just barbarians who experienced "ethnogenesis" or cultural assimilation. The same Romans who disparaged barbarian behavior also adopted aspects of it in their everyday lives, providing graphic examples of the ambiguity and negotiation that characterized the integration of Romans and barbarians, a process that altered the concepts of identity of both populations. The resultant late antique polyethnic cultural world, with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that became increasingly permeable in both directions, does much to help explain how the barbarian settlement of the west was accomplished with much less disruption than there might have been, and how barbarian populations were integrated seamlessly into the old Roman world.
Author : Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0253312884
Barbarians serving in the Roman army, like all other Roman soldiers, faced difficult choices as political events buffeted their leaders and threatened their livelihoods. Honorius, Stilicho, Alaric, Galla Placidia, Constantius III and usurpers like Constantine III and Attalus left their imprints upon these years - coloring the fabric of political and spiritual life as much as they affected military affairs.
Author : Alan Cameron,Jacqueline Long
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520377196
The chaotic events of A.D. 395–400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long propose a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron and Long offer a vital new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman Empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the preceding one hundred years. Not only did the death of Theodosius set off a struggle between Roman officeholders of the two empires, but it also set off renewed efforts by the barbarian Goths to seize both territory and office. Theodosius had encouraged high-ranking Goths to enter Roman military service; thus well placed, their efforts would lead to Alaric’s sack of Rome in 410. Though the authors’ interest is in the particularities of events, Barbarians and Politics at the Court Of Arcadius conveys a wonderful sense of the general time and place. Cameron and Long’s rebuttal of modern scholarship, which pervades the narrative, enhances the reader’s engagement with the complexities of interpretation. The result is a sophisticated recounting of a period of crucial change in the Roman Empire’s relationship to the non-Roman world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author : Thomas S. Burns
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801899225
This historical analysis of Roman-Barbarian relations from the Republic into late antiquity offers a striking new perspective on the fall of the Empire. The barbarians of antiquity, often portrayed simply as the savages who destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complex factor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire. Thomas S. Burns marshals an abundance of archeological and literary evidence to bring forth a detailed and wide-ranging account of the relations between Romans and non-Romans along the frontiers of western Europe. Looking at a 500-year time span beginning with early encounters between barbarians and Romans around 100 B.C. and ending with the spread of barbarian settlement in the western Empire, Burns reframes the barbarians as neighbors, friends, and settlers. His nuanced history subtly shows how Rome’s relations with the barbarians slowly evolved from general ignorance, hostility, and suspicion toward tolerance, synergy, and integration. This long period of acculturation led to a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization.
Author : George Shelley Hughs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Civilization
ISBN : NYPL:33433082426580
Author : Sarah Lilton
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781614646785
ABOUT THE BOOK How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through its cycles?"- The Magistrate Waiting for the Barbarians is JM Coetzee’s third novel and was published in 1980. It quickly garnered popular and critical attention for the relatively young South African author. It was awarded the CNA Prize (South Africa’s top literary award), the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (Britain’s literary prize for authors under 40), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Scotland’s top publishing award as well as one of the oldest literary awards in the UK). This short but powerful novel was written during the time that Coetzee taught literature at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He had returned to his native country in 1972 after the United States government.. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK He is fascinated with uncovering the mysteries of this ancient town, and speculates on the possible ends their civilization came to. Did they succumb to the barbarians of old and die encamped within the walls? The Magistrate is not overly ambitious, and yet it soon becomes clear that even his modest hopes will prove extravagant. “When I pass away I hope to merit three lines of small print in the Imperial Gazette,” he says. “I have not asked for more then a quiet life in quiet times.” Despite the Magistrates temperate inclinations, he proves to be a ruthless observer of both his own nature and that of those he encounters. His awakening consciousness is unsparing and brutal as it systematically uncovers and destroys his illusions about life and the world. The sleepy frontier town, not even having facilities for prisoners, has idled along without event under the Magistrates stewardship, but has come recently to the Empire’s attention as stories of unrest among the barbarians have stirred the officials of the Third Bureau of the Civil Guard into action. The barbarian tribes, who are fishing people and aboriginals living a nomadic lifestyle on the edges of civilization, are rumored to be arming and organizing against the Empire. Colonel Joll and his men, the “doctors of interrogation,” come to the frontier with a particular theory of interrogation, “First I get lies, you see—this is what happens—first lies, then pressure, then more lies, then more pressure, then the break, then more pressure, then the truth,” Joll explains. “That is how you get the truth.” The Magistrate comments dryly, to himself: “Pain is truth, all else is subject to doubt.” Noting that about once every decade there is an eruption of hysteria about the barbarians, the Magistrate does his best to accommodate the Third Bureau, but finds himself impelled towards an inevitable confrontation with the powers he has served with a half-indifferent complacence for so many years... Buy the book to continue reading! Follow @hyperink on Twitter! Visit us at www.facebook.com/hyperink! Go to www.hyperink.com to join our newsletter and get awesome freebies! CHAPTER OUTLINE JM Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians + About the Book + Sidebar: A very brief introduction to colonization and Apartheid + Introducing the Author + Overall Summary + ...and much more
Author : Eric Michaud
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262043151
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion—the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity. The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invasions of the Roman Empire in the fifth century became the gateway to modernity, seen not as a catastrophe but as a release from a period of stagnation, renewing Roman culture with fresh, northern blood—and with new art that was anti-Roman and anticlassical. Artifacts of art from then on would be considered as the natural product of “races” and “peoples” rather than the creation of individuals. The myth of the barbarian invasions achieved the fragmentation of classical eternity. This narrative, Michaud explains, inseparable from the formation of nation states and the rise of nationalism in Europe, was based on the dual premise of the homogeneity and continuity of peoples. Local and historical particularities became weapons aimed at classicism's universalism. The history of art linked its objects with racial groups—denouncing or praising certain qualities as “Latin” or “Germanic.” Thus the predominance of linear elements was thought to betray a southern origin, and the “painterly” a Germanic or northern source. Even today, Michaud points out, it is said that art best embodies the genius of peoples. In the globalized contemporary art market, the ethnic provenance of works—categorized, for example, as “African American,” “Latino,” or “Native American”—creates added value. The market displays the same competition among “races” that was present at the foundation of art history as a discipline.
Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446424964
The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
Author : Rogue Planet Press
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326351144