Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts
Although empires have played a decisive role in political thinking and the orientation of political goals at all times, the focus of research has so far mostly been on spatial and ideological aspects. This volume, on the other hand, offers a multi-disciplinary collection of studies that deal with th...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Mnchen Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2024]
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| Schlagworte: | HISTORY / World |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (X, 276 p.) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Authors
- Introduction: Politics of Pasts and Futures
- Part I: Translatio Imperii
- Emperor in his Own Castle: Francis’ I Translatio Imperii to Fontainebleau
- „da caput a cauda mundi.“ Zur Reziprozität metropolitaner Identität und (post-)imperialer Logik im mittelalterlichen Rom
- Building a Language of Power: the Early Abbasid Caliphs and Rum
- Die Eroberung Alexandrias als Leitmotiv der Weimarer Republik
- Part II: Distant Pasts
- Imperial Leapfrogging: How Empires Anchor Their Rule in the Past
- Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Wadi B Temple of the Imperial Cult as Mnemonic Cluster
- Political Justification of Territorial Expansion from Catherine II to Putin: Inventing “Novorossiya” in Imperial and in Post-imperial Context
- Memories of Empire: Imaginaries of Pasts and Futures in Iranian Anti-regime Online Spaces
- Part III: Breaches and Continuities
- Internationalist Conviction, National Narratives, and Imperial History. A Study of Socialist Commemorative Culture in Austria-Hungary and Spain, 1898-1911
- Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society
- Curating Indigeneity: Imperial Pasts and the Shaping of Communal Identities in the Malay Archipelago (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)