Against the background of a new interest in empires past and present and an inflation of the concept in modern political language and beyond, the article first looks at the use of the concept as an analytical marker in historical and current interpretations of empires. With a focus on Western European cases, the concrete semantics of empire as a key concept in modern European history is analyzed, combining a reconstruction of some diachronic trends with synchronic differentiations.
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The Longue Durée of Empire
Toward a Comparative Semantics of a Key Concept in Modern European History
Jörn Leonhard
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2013
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- Introduction
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- 1–25 (25 total)
European Union
Are the Founding Ideas Obsolete?
Isabelle Petit and George Ross
On 9 May 1950, in an elegant salon of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, France’s Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed that France and Germany, plus any other democratic nation in Western Europe that wanted to join, establish a “community” to regulate and govern the coal and steel industries across national borders. France and Germany had been at, or preparing for, war for most of the nineteenth and twentieth century, at huge costs to millions of citizens. Moreover, in 1950 iron and steel remained central to national economic success and war-making power. The Schuman Plan therefore clearly spoke to deeper issues.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2011
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- Introduction
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- 1–3 (3 total)
Pamela Ballinger and Kristen P. Ghodsee
Scholars of religion have increasingly brought secularism within the framework of critical studies of spirituality, analyzing the dialogic relationship between religions and secularisms past and present. This emerging field of “postsecularist” studies examines the multiple meanings and practices that different cultures and societies attach to the concepts of “religion,” “faith,” and “piety.” The articles presented in this special section of Aspasia contribute to these larger academic debates by focusing on the multiethnic and historically pluralistic region of Southeastern Europe, an area too often ignored in larger scholarly discussions that have focused primarily on Western Europe and the so-called Third World. More important, the articles in this volume demonstrate how secularization projects are intricately interwoven with gender relations in any given society. Collectively, the articles urge readers to draw connections between the shifting spiritual cartographies, state formations, and definitions of appropriate masculinity and femininity of particular Southeastern European societies.
Ordinary Trauma
Twenty-One Disabled Women Surviving the 1989 Polish Transformation
Natalia Pamula
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This article analyzes the Polish disability memoirs in Cierpieniem pisane: Pamiętniki kobiet niepełnosprawnych (Written through Suffering: Disabled Women's Memoirs), published in 1991. Written through Suffering consists of twenty-one short memoirs submitted as a response to a memoir competition organized around the theme “I am a Disabled Woman” in 1990. Published two years after the first democratic elections, which took place in Poland in June 1989, this anthology shows that contrary to the mainstream narrative in Poland, Western Europe, and the US, 1989 did not bring about a revolution or any dramatic change for disabled women. Women's memoirs included in this collection question the teleological narrative of linear progression from state socialism to democracy and capitalism and point to the uneven distribution of newly acquired rights.
in one of the most brutal massacres perpetrated in Western Europe after the Second World War. Since the end of the 1980s, historians and activists proposed narratives of these events that mainly portray the Algerians as victims of a colonial
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Abstract
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- 151–153 (3 total)
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Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement
Helga Druxes and Patricia Anne Simpson
inequalities among them. Aftereffects from the break-up of the East bloc can be felt in the escalation of antiminority violence in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as “the smouldering slow burn of the legacies of colonialism” in Western Europe. 2 These
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Introduction
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- 1–16 (16 total)
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Remembering the Second World War in Post-Soviet Educational Media
Barbara Christophe
of the West. 21 This difference is even said to have influenced the preferred choice of media used as a means to store memories. While Western European countries are seen as inclined toward fixing consensual interpretations of the past by literally
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Introduction
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- 1–12 (12 total)
Sarah Wiliarty and Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
the AfD's entry onto the national political scene. The contributors—an interdisciplinary group representing several generations of German politics scholars—draw on comparative examples from across western Europe and throughout German history to
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Introduction
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- 1–6 (6 total)
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Concepts of Emotions in Indian Languages
Margrit Pernau
arising and floating in the interaction between them. 21 These assumptions are linked to a development that started in Western Europe with the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, both of which accorded a religiously motivated importance to the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 24–37 (14 total)
Romanticizing Difference
Identities in Transformation after World War I
Nadia Malinovich
to Paris—both on his own society and that of Western Europe. Navon, she notes, does not fall into Western bifurcations between a picturesque and ossified “Orient” and a progressive, modern “Occident.” Rather, he presents the world of the pre–World War
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–9 (9 total)