Framing Empire
Title | Framing Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2018-11-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474429963 |
A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fiction
Legal Histories of the British Empire
Title | Legal Histories of the British Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Shaunnagh Dorsett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317915747 |
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.
Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond
Title | Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Ferdinand Kühnel |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3643912234 |
During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.
Picturing Empire
Title | Picturing Empire PDF eBook |
Author | James R. Ryan |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1780231636 |
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
Framing Empire
Title | Framing Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield |
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Release | 2011 |
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Revisiting the European Union as Empire
Title | Revisiting the European Union as Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Hartmut Behr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317595114 |
The European Union’s stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an ‘imperial’ power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies, history, sociology, international relations, and economics.
A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641
Title | A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Mitchell |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 582 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1118341066 |
The Second Edition of A History of the Later Roman Empire features extensive revisions and updates to the highly-acclaimed, sweeping historical survey of the Roman Empire from the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 to the death of Heraclius in 641. Features a revised narrative of the political history that shaped the late Roman Empire Includes extensive changes to the chapters on regional history, especially those relating to Asia Minor and Egypt Offers a renewed evaluation of the decline of the empire in the later sixth and seventh centuries Places a larger emphasis on the military deficiencies, collapse of state finances, and role of bubonic plague throughout the Europe in Rome’s decline Includes systematic updates to the bibliography