The Imperial Moment

Author : Kimberly Kagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674054091

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In a provocative study on comparative empire, noted historians identify periods of transition across history that reveal how and why empires emerge. Loren J. Samons on Athens and Arthur Eckstein on Rome examine classical Western empires. Nicholas Canny discusses the British experience, Paul Bushkovitch analyzes the case of imperial Russia, and Pamela Kyle Crossley studies Qing China's beginnings. Frank Ninkovich tackles the actions of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, which many view as imperial behavior. What were the critical characteristics that distinguished the imperial period of the state from its pre-imperial period? When did the state develop those characteristics sufficiently to be called an empire? The authors indicate the domestic political, social, economic, or military institutions that made empire formation possible and address how intentional the transition to empire was. They investigate the actions that drove imperial consolidation and consider the international environment in which the empire formed. Kimberly Kagan provides a concluding essay that probes the historical cases for insights into policymaking and the nature of imperial power.

Author : Gary Sick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : International relations
ISBN : OCLC:987401945

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Author : Josep M. Fradera
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691183930

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The Imperial Nation by Josep M. Fradera Pdf

How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

Author : Enrico Dal Lago,Róisín Healy,Gearóid Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351718240

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1916 in Global Context by Enrico Dal Lago,Róisín Healy,Gearóid Barry Pdf

The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence that took on worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of the year 1916 in the decline of empires.

Author : Stephanie Barczewski,Martin Farr
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244590

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The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History by Stephanie Barczewski,Martin Farr Pdf

This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.

Author : Wei Hsien Wan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684479

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The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter by Wei Hsien Wan Pdf

Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.

Author : Nancy Condee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190451226

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The Imperial Trace by Nancy Condee Pdf

The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the conditions of production, or the preoccupations of its filmmakers? This expansive study takes up this complex question through a commanding analysis of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period auteurists, Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Aleksandr Sokurov and Aleksei Balabanov.

Author : Timothy G. McMahon,Michael de Nie,Paul Townend
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137596376

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Ireland in an Imperial World by Timothy G. McMahon,Michael de Nie,Paul Townend Pdf

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through their diasporic communities, they built sophisticated arguments that aided challenges to other imperial projects. In emphasizing the interconnections between Ireland and the wider British and Irish worlds, this book argues that a greater appreciation of empire is essential for enriching our understanding of the development of Irish society at home. Moreover, these thirteen essays argue plainly that Ireland was on the cutting edge of broader global developments, both in configuring and dismantling Europe’s overseas empires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023941

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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical knowledge. Vol.1-12. 2nd ser. (ed. by S. Drew). Vol.1-4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gareth Glover
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848329515

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Waterloo: The Defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard by Gareth Glover Pdf

“This in-depth study of the nuts and bolts of a single division is without a doubt the best book I have ever read on Waterloo.”—The Napoleon Series Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal This is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published. It is based on the papers of its commander Sir Henry Clinton, and it reveals for the first time the previously unrecognized vital role this division made in the defeat of Napoleon. Author Gareth Glover explains how the division was placed ahead of the main allied squares thus impeding the charges of the French cavalry, and how the 2nd Division supported the defense of Hougoumont, considered by the Duke of Wellington as the key to his victory on 18 June 1815. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this book is the description of the defeat of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard. Just how the incomparable Guard was stopped and then driven from the battlefield is explained in detail. Once and for all, this 200-year controversy is finally resolved. “Does a superb job of dissecting the controversy over whether it was Adam’s Brigade or the Guard’s Brigade that was instrumental in defeating the Imperial Guard.”—The Napoleon Series

Author : Balachandra Rajan,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043790867

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Milton and the Imperial Vision by Balachandra Rajan,Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

This exceptionally rich collection of 16 essays by major literary scholars and cultural historians opens new areas of inquiry in Milton studies. While focusing on forms and variations of imperialism and colonialism in the seventeenth century, chiefly as a context in which to analyse Milton's poetry and prose, these essays extend their attention to the present-day concern with postcolonialism and postcolonialist discourse. More than anything, these essays compare and contrast early modern and postmodern perspectives on various issues: imperial visions of history, imperial intolerance, the geography of empire, the role of Nature in the imperial vision, the interplay of religion and politics in imperialism, Augustan Nationalism, the multiple vision for a British Empire, the imperial canon in the colonial classroom, and the like.

Author : Benjamin de Carvalho,Julia Costa Lopez,Halvard Leira
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351168946

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Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations by Benjamin de Carvalho,Julia Costa Lopez,Halvard Leira Pdf

Good addition to handbooks programme, no direct competitiors HIST section of ISA is growing each year Faced with an uncertain future, an increasing number of scholars have looked to the past for guidance, patterns and ideas. This tendency has been clear, despite theoretical and methodological difference, this book will fill a lacuna.

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 082233142X

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After the Imperial Turn by Antoinette Burton Pdf

DIVEssays in this collection assess "the nation" as a subject of disciplinary inquiry, considering both its enduring relevance and its inadequacy as an analytical category for studying history, literature, and culture./div

Author : James Louis Hevia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896085

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The Imperial Security State by James Louis Hevia Pdf

An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.

Author : Thomas J. Figueira,Sean R. Jensen
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589960

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Hegemonic Finances by Thomas J. Figueira,Sean R. Jensen Pdf

Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens drew money from the Aegean world with which to fund a vast fleet, to facilitate her own demokratia and to create ambitious public buildings still visible today. This collection of new studies, inspired and guided by an internationally-acknowledged authority on ancient finance, Thomas Figueira, by focusing on how Athens raised finance, sheds light on more familiar questions: How oppressive, or otherwise, was Athens to fellow-Greeks and how did her demands vary over time? Contributors here suggest that Athens may have exercised hegemonic ambitions for longer than usually thought, applying greater experience, and more sensitivity to individual communities.