examples, but also as jailors that explicitly acted as agents of the empire under whose control Russian elite, as well as non-Russians, fell. Eighteenth-century convents on the Siberian frontier complicate the representation, role, and function of female
Search Results
You are looking at 1 - 10 of 1,447 items for :
- "empire" x
- Refine by Access: All content x
- Refine by Content Type: All x
Gender and Empire
The Imprisonment of Women in Eighteenth-Century Siberia
Gwyn Bourlakov
Introduction: The French Empire and the History of Economic Life
Owen White and Elizabeth Heath
If the past twenty years or so of heightened interest in the history of the French Empire has delivered a satisfactory return on scholarly investment, it seems fair to say that the theme of economic life within that empire has received something of
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 76–88 (13 total)
Ottoman Concepts of Empire
Einar Wigen
Empire was never an important concept in Ottoman politics. This did not stop Ottoman rulers from laying claim to three titles that may be called imperial: halife, hakan, and kayser. Each of these pertains to different translationes imperii, or claims of descent from different empires: the Caliphate, the steppe empires of the Huns, Turks, and Mongols, and the Roman Empire. Each of the three titles was geared toward a specific audience: Muslims, Turkic nomads, and Greek-Orthodox Christians, respectively. In the nineteenth century a new audience emerged as an important source of political legitimacy: European-emergent international society. With it a new political vocabulary was introduced into the Ottoman language. Among those concepts was that of empire, which found its place in Ottoman discourse by connecting it with the existing imperial claims.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 44–66 (23 total)
The Longue Durée of Empire
Toward a Comparative Semantics of a Key Concept in Modern European History
Jörn Leonhard
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.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–25 (25 total)
Ridiculous Empire
Satire and European Colonialism in the Comics of Olivier Schrauwen
Robert Aman
Coincidentally, they are the same people upon whom the economy and politics of the empire depend, but whose lives have not required historical or cultural attention. 65 In Congo Chromo , the Congolese are only visible on one occasion, which is in a panel
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–106 (27 total)
Empire's salvage heart
Why diversity matters in the global political economy
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What if those translations across difference that characterize global supply chains were to inspire a model of power and struggle in the contemporary political economy? In contrast to the unified Empire offered by Hardt and Negri, supply chains show us how attention to diversity-and the transformative collaborations it inspires-is key to both identifying what is wrong with the world today and imagining what we can do about it. This article describes a politics in which transformative collaborations across difference form the radical heart of possibility. Nonhumans are involved, as well as people with starkly different backgrounds and agendas. Love might be transformed.
Occupation, Race, and Empire
Maxence Van der Meersch's Invasion 14
W. Brian Newsome
In his 1935 novel Invasion 14, Maxence Van der Meersch painted a nuanced picture of the German invasion and occupation of northern France during World War I. Despite local controversy, Invasion 14 won national and international praise, losing the Prix Goncourt by a single vote. Though neglected in the wake of World War II, when the author's treatment of Franco-German relations between 1914 and 1918 ran headlong into evolving myths of widespread resistance between 1940 and 1944, Invasion 14 has garnered renewed attention as a window onto the occupation of World War I. Heretofore unappreciated, however, is Van der Meersch's use of colonial themes of race and empire. Based on research in the Archives Maxence Van der Meersch, this study explores the author's treatment of colonial motifs, demonstrating their centrality to the novel and the debate it generated.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 47–66 (20 total)
The Anti-Empire of General de Boigne
Sentimentalism, Love, and Cultural Difference in the Eighteenth Century
William M. Reddy
Sentimentalism became a widely accepted practical code among the educated European elite in the late eighteenth century. In the 1790s, however, it went into rapid decline. One reason is that when Europeans tried to establish families and polities in line with the dictates of sentimentalism, these efforts often ended in failure. A noteworthy example is provided by the career of Benoît Leborgne, later known as Bennett de Boigne, who rose to fame as a soldier of fortune in India, founding a kind of anti-empire in collaboration with Mahadaji Sindhia between 1784 and 1795. The collapse of his state building efforts—and of his marriages—clearly demonstrate the pitfalls of "following one's heart" in the eighteenth-century manner.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 4–25 (22 total)
The End of Empire Colonial Heritage and the Politics of Memory in Britain
Susanne Grindel
Taking as its starting point the current debate over the significance of history in the National Curriculum for England, this article examines the place of the country's colonial past in its national culture of memory. In the context of debates about educational policy and the politics of memory concerning Britain's colonial heritage, the author focuses on the transmission and interpretation of this heritage via school history textbooks, which play a key role in the politics of memory. This medium offers insight into transformations of the country's colonial experience that have taken place since the end of the British Empire. School textbooks do not create and establish these transformations in isolation from other arenas of discourse about the culture of memory by reinventing the nation. Instead, they reflect, as part of the national culture of memory, the uncertainties and insecurities emerging from the end of empire and the decolonization of the British nation's historical narrative.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 33–49 (17 total)
Republican Imperialisms
Narrating the History of “Empire” in France, 1885–1900
Christina Carroll
In 1912, Georges Saint-Paul, a doctor who had spent his career serving the French army in Algeria and Tunisia, wrote a series of articles later collected into a book called Vers l’empire . * In these articles, he insisted that the Third Republic
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 118–142 (25 total)