Friendship And Empire
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Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139501860 |
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In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr Burton charts the impact of the psychology, language and gestures associated with the Roman concept of amicitia, or 'friendship'. The book challenges the prevailing orthodox Cold War-era realist interpretation of Roman imperialism and argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle. Using a constructivist theoretical framework drawn from international relations, Dr Burton replaces the modern scholarly fiction of a Roman empire built on networks of foreign clients and client-states with an interpretation grounded firmly in the discursive habits of the ancient texts themselves. The results better account for the peculiar rhythms of Rome's earliest period of overseas expansion - brief periods of vigorous military and diplomatic activity, such as the rolling back of Seleucid power in Asia Minor and Greece in 192–188 BC, followed by long periods of inactivity.
Author | : Arthur I. Miller |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780618341511 |
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A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Author | : Rachel Applebaum |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501735586 |
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The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive socialist world. This friendship project resulted in a new type of imperial control based on cross-border contacts between ordinary citizens. In a new and fascinating story of cultural diplomacy, interpersonal relations, and the trade of consumer-goods, Applebaum tracks the rise and fall of the friendship project in Czechoslovakia, as the country evolved after World War II from the Soviet Union's most loyal satellite to its most rebellious. Throughout Eastern Europe, the friendship project shaped the most intimate aspects of people's lives, influencing everything from what they wore to where they traveled to whom they married. Applebaum argues that in Czechoslovakia, socialist friendship was surprisingly durable, capable of surviving the ravages of Stalinism and the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring. Eventually, the project became so successful that it undermined the very alliance it was designed to support: as Soviets and Czechoslovaks got to know one another, they discovered important cultural and political differences that contradicted propaganda about a cohesive socialist world. Empire of Friends reveals that the sphere of everyday life was central to the construction of the transnational socialist system in Eastern Europe—and, ultimately, its collapse.
Author | : Leela Gandhi |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2006-01-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822337157 |
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DIVInvestigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography./div
Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Friendship |
ISBN | : 9781139190015 |
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Argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle.
Author | : Suzanne Stern-Gillet |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438453655 |
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Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world. Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the souls relation to Godand that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.
Author | : Luke B. Yarbrough |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108496601 |
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Reveals how early Muslims devised and elaborated normative views concerning non-Muslim state officials at moments of intense competition.
Author | : C. Wess Daniels |
Publisher | : Barclay Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781594980633 |
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Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not too late for us to exit empire and enter the kingdom. We are yet both victim and victimizer. We have healing work to do, and we must take responsibility for the ways in which we have benefited from and been complicit with the religion of empire. This is the truth of Revelation. God wants to liberate us in body, heart, soul, and mind.Revelation reveals how scapegoating functions within empire to define its own boundaries and contours as being over and against wicked others.Revelation critiques wealth and shows that even in the first century there was prophetic critique against an economic system that was based on abundance for some, while exploiting the rest.Revelation demonstrates the importance of liturgy as something that forms people into the likeness of either empire or the lamb.Revelation reveals an alternative social order which becomes the center of resistance rooted in a vision of what the book describes as "the multitude."
Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004404732 |
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Across 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria and from the North Sea to North Africa. This study analyzes the debate over Roman imperialism from ancient times to the present.
Author | : June Teufel Dreyer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195375661 |
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"Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. Until the late nineteenth century, China was the more powerful, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth century. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions ... Dreyer argues that recent disputes should be seen as manifestations of embedded rivalries rather than as issues whose resolution would provide a lasting solution to deep-standing disputes"--Jacket.