Showing papers on "Empire published in 2003"

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

Abstract: A grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization, with lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian. The British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the British Empire has come to stand for nothing more than a lost Victorian past--one so remote that it has ceased even to be a target for satire. The time is ripe for a reappraisal. In this major new work of synthesis and revision, Niall Ferguson argues that the British Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key features of the twenty-first-centu ry world can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic globalization, the communications revolution, the racial make-up of North America, the notion of humanitarianism, the nature of democracy. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him the brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that far from being a subject for nostalgia, the story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for the world today--in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new kind of imperial power based once again on economic and military supremacy.

Enlightenment against Empire

Abstract: In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. "Enlightenment Against Empire" is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices.Muthu shows how such arguments enabled the era's anti-imperialists to defend the freedom of non-European peoples to order their own societies. In contrast to those who praise "the Enlightenment" as the triumph of a universal morality and critics who view it as an imperializing ideology that denigrated cultural pluralism, Muthu argues instead that eighteenth-century political thought included multiple Enlightenments. He reveals a distinctive and underappreciated strand of Enlightenment thinking that interweaves commitments to universal moral principles and incommensurable ways of life, and that links the concept of a shared human nature with the idea that humans are fundamentally diverse. Such an intellectual temperament, Muthu contends, can broaden our own perspectives about international justice and the relationship between human unity and diversity.

Empire of Capital

Abstract: In this era of globalization, we hear a great deal about a new imperialism and its chief enforcer, the United States. Today, with the US promising an endless war against terrorism and promoting a policy of preemptive defence, this notion seems more plausible than ever. But what does imperialism mean in the absence of colonial conquest and direct imperial rule? In this lucid and lively book Ellen Meiksins Wood explores the new imperialism against the contrasting background of older forms, from ancient Rome, through medieval Europe, the Arab Muslim world, the Spanish conquests, and the Dutch commercial empire. Tracing the birth of a capitalist imperialism back to the English domination of Ireland, Wood follows its development through the British Empire in America and India. The book brings into sharp relief the nature of today's new capitalist empire, in which the political reach of imperial power cannot match its economic hegemony, and the global economy is administered not by a global state but by a system of multiple local states, policed by the most disproportionately powerful military force the world has ever known and enforced according to a new military doctrine of war without end, in purpose or time.

American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

Abstract: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us 'beyond geography.' Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition. The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as 'Woodrow Wilson's geographer,' and later as Frankin D. Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy. A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt's State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key 'architect of the United Nations.' In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine. Bowman's career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith's historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980s but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics - and the limits - of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.

The making of English national identity

Abstract: Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.

A Modern History of Hong Kong

Abstract: This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.

Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan

Abstract: In Empire Lite, Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire - the imperial and the humanitarian - and argues that the international community has failed to engage intelligently with the problems of nation building in the aftermath of apocalyptic events. The collapse of political order around the world is now seen as a major threat, and a new international order is emerging, one that is crafted to suit American imperial objectives. This presents humanitarian agencies with the dilemma of how to keep their programs from being suborned to imperial interests. Yet they know that it was American air-power that made an uneasy peace and humanitarian reconstruction possible, first in Bosnia, then in Kosovo, and finally in Afghanistan. This is the new world of geopolitics we live in and must try to grasp. The vivid, cogent essays in this book attempt to understand the phenomenon of state collapse and state failure in the world's zones of danger and the gradual emergence of an American led humanitarian empire. Focussing on nation building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, Ignatieff reveals how American military power, European money and humanitarian motive have combined to produce a form of imperial rule for a post-imperial age. Drawing on his own experiences of war zones, and with an extraordinary account of life in Afghanistan, Ignatieff identifies the illusions that make a genuine act of solidarity so difficult and asks what can be done to help people in war-torn societies enjoy the essential right to rule themselves.

They live in a state of nomadism and savagery : The late Ottoman empire and the post-colonial debate

Abstract: The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim world empire to survive into the age of modernity. The Ottoman state, together with its contemporaries, Habsburg Austria and Romanov Russia, was engaged in a struggle for survival in a world where it no longer made the rules. As the nineteenth century approached its last quarter, these rules were increasingly determined by the successful and aggressive world powers, Britain, France, and after 1870, Germany. As external pressure on the ottoman Empire mounted from the second half of the century, the Ottoman center found itself obliged to squeeze manpower resources it had hitherto not tapped. Particularly nomadic populations, armed and already possessing the military skills required, now became a primary target for mobilization. This study is an attempt to come to grips with the “civilizing mission” mentality of the late Ottomans and their “project of modernity” as reflected in their provincial administration. It is the view of this writer that sometime in the nineteenth century the Ottoman elite adopted the mindset of their enemies, the arch-imperialists, and came to conceive of its periphery as a colonial setting.My definition of colonialism here closely follows the Leninist position as in “Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism.” In my view, this is still one of the best and most succinct definitions of imperialism. After showing how the partition of the word accelerated in the 1880s, Lenin concludes, “It is beyond doubt therefore, that capitalism's transition to the stage of monopoly capitalism, to finance capital, is connected with the intensification of the struggle for the partitioning of the world.” V. Lenin, Selected Works (Moscow: Progress Publishers 1977), 224.

Problematizing Cultural Stereotypes in TESOL

Abstract: Mitchell, J. (1994). Sex kills. On Turbulent Indigo [CD]. Los Angeles, CA: Reprise Records/Crazy Crow Music. Morgan, D. (2003, August 10). A debate over U.S. 'empire' builds in unexpected circles [Electronic version]. Washington Post, p. A3. Retrieved October 20, 2003, from http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081203G.shtml Murphy, B. (2003, April 5). Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved October 20, 2003, from http://www.jsonline.com/news /gen/apr03/131523.asp Pennycook, A. (1994). The cultural politics of English as an international language. London: Longman. Pennycook, A. (Ed.). (1999). Critical approaches to TESOL [Special-topic issue]. TESOL Quarterly, 33(3). Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical applied linguistics: A critical introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I

Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Nationalist Challenges, Imperial Dilemmas 2 The Moscow Riots 3 Nationalizing the Commercial and Industrial Economy 4 Nationalizing the Land 5 Forced Migration Conclusion Appendix: Wartime Leaders Notes Archival Sources Index

Long-run development and the legacy of colonialism in Spanish America

Abstract: For more than a century, the countries of Spanish America have maintained their level of development relative to one another. This article argues that this enduring regional hierarchy is a path‐dependent legacy of Spanish colonialism. Those territories that constituted the centers of the Spanish colonial empire tended to become the region’s least developed countries; by contrast, those territories that were peripheral to the Spanish empire tended to become the most developed countries. Using methods for assessing both correlational causation and necessary/sufficient causation, the article explores competing hypotheses to explain this inverse relationship. It finds that the density of the indigenous population and the strength of liberal elites during the period from 1700 to 1850 were critical factors linking colonial and postcolonial development.

The Commonwealth of Oceana

Abstract: JANOTTI, the most excellent describer of the Commonwealth of Venice, divides the whole series of government into two times or periods: the one ending with the liberty of Rome, which was the course or empire, as I may call it, of ancient prudence, first discovered to mankind by God himself in the fabric of the commonwealth of Israel, and afterward picked out of his footsteps in nature, and unanimously followed by the Greeks and Romans; the other beginning with the arms of Caesar, which, extinguishing liberty, were the transition of ancient into modern prudence, introduced by those inundations of Huns, Goths, Vandals, Lombards, Saxons, which, breaking the Roman Empire, deformed the whole face of the world with those ill-features of government, which at this time are become far worse in these western parts, except Venice, which, escaping the hands of the barbarians by virtue of its impregnable situation, has had its eye fixed upon ancient prudence, and is attained to a perfection even beyond the copy.

Roman Syria and the Near East

Abstract: "Roman Syria" includes some of the most famous and spectacular ruins of the ancient world Palmyra, Baalbek and Apamea and fabled cities such as Antioch, Damascus, Sidon and Tyre. Yet there are many other sites which are almost unknown, such as the great fortress city of Zenobia on the Euphrates or the remarkably well-preserved villages of the limestone massif of northwestern Syria.This book outlines Syria's pivotal role in Roman history and the conflicts between the empire and its two powerful eastern neighbors: the Parthians and Sasanians. The author discusses the consequences of empire in Syria: the provinces, 'client' kingdoms and city-states, the impact of Rome on the calendars and the economy, the exploitation of resources, the adoption of Christianity, the role of the army and the infrastructure developed by the Romans. Equally significant are regional and local responses: from art and public architecture to dress codes and cult activities. The author stresses continuity as well as change, whether in religion, taxes and trade, political boundaries, coinage or temple building, from the time of the Hellenistic empires and their antecedents through the Roman empire to the Muslim world.

Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

Abstract: Fundamentalist terror movements are seen as reversions to medievalism, backlashes against a way of life that is the same everywhere This view is a mirage Thinking of modernity as a universal condition is a hindrance to understanding the present Gray goes back to the origins of our notion of modernity in early nineteenth-century Positivism Many economists imbibed their view that every society goes through the same developmental phases Gray argues that September 11th destroyed the idea of globalisation as the sole pathway to modernity He considers the role of the global free market, the pretensions of economics, the metamorphosis of war and the prospects of an American empire

English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China

Abstract: Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese elite on “proper” behavior in a world dominated by multiple imperial powers. Their aim was to “bring China low” and make it a willing participant in British strategic goals in Asia. These lessons not only transformed the Qing dynasty but ultimately contributed to its destruction. Hevia analyzes British Foreign Office documents, diplomatic memoirs, auction house and museum records, nineteenth-century scholarly analyses of Chinese history and culture, campaign records, and photographs. He shows how Britain refigured its imperial project in China as a cultural endeavor through examinations of the circulation of military loot in Europe, the creation of an art history of “things Chinese,” the construction of a field of knowledge about China, and the Great Game rivalry between Britain, Russia, and the Qing empire in Central Asia. In so doing, he illuminates the impact of these elements on the colonial project and the creation of a national consciousness in China.

Eurafricans in western Africa : commerce, social status, gender, and religious observance from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century

Abstract: Introduction - Western Africa: ecological zones & human geography - Commercial networks: Biafada-Sapi, Banyun-Bak & Cabo Verdean-Lancado - Portuguese, Luso- Africans & European competitors - Western Africa & the onset of an era of droughts, famines & global economic transformations - The evolution of 'nharaship' in Senegambia - Trade with the Kaabu empire & Serra Leoa - Era of the second Cacheu Company - Expanding slave-trading networks & the corruption of African social & cultural patterns - Senegambia: Luso-Africans supplanted by Franco-Africans - Geba-Grande & Serra Leoa: Luso-Africans challenged & supplanted by Anglo-Africans - References.

An introduction to Roman religion

Abstract: This is an introduction to religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the subject, it draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices and oracles, to describe the uses of temples and sacred ground, and to evoke the daily patterns of religious life and observance within the city Rome and its environs. The book is divided into five parts. In the first the author considers the contemporary meaning of religious terms and concepts and the role religion played in the Roman sense of identity and destiny. The second describes the religious calendar, diurnal patterns of worship and observance, and the structure of religious space in temples, sanctuaries and sacred places. The third looks at the form of religious services including the rites and purposes of sacrifices, and examines when auspices were sought and how they were read. Part IV describes the priests and priestesses -- who they were; how they were trained and for what functions -- and the gods and demi-gods of the Roman pantheon. Part V considers Roman theology and exegesis. Professor Scheid writes primarily for university students of ancient Rome and classical civilisation: information and ideas are laid out clearly and concisely; the text is illustrated with quotations from primary sources; a chronology links religious to historical events from 750 BC to AD 494; there is a full glossary and an annotated guide to further reading. The text contains numerous summaries and suggestions for discussion.

"A Whole Empire Walking. Refugees in Russia during World War I", Peter Gatrell, Bloomington-Indianapolis 1999 : [recenzja] / Konrad Zieliński.

Abstract: Introduction: Humanity Uprooted 1. War and the Origins of Involuntary Displacement 2. The Politics of Refugeedom 3. Resettlement and Relief of Refugees 4. Consolidating Refugeedom 5. Refugees and Gender 6. Refugees and the Labor Market 7. Refugees and the Construction of "National" Identity 8. Revolution and Refugeedom Conclusion: The Meanings of Refugeedom Appendix 1. Refugee Population Statistics Appendix 2. Questionnaire Issued by the Tatiana Committee, January 1917 Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Cuisine and Culture : A History of Food and People

Abstract: ANTIPASTO/ANTOJITOS/AMUSE-BOUCHES: FOOD FOR THOUGHT. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. First Course. From Rawto Cooked: PREHISTORY, MESOPOTAMIA, EGYPT, CHINA, INDIA. PREHISTORY. THE ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION. THE FERTILE CRESCENT: THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS. EGYPT: THE NILE RIVER. CHINA: THE YELLOW (HUANG HE) RIVER. INDIA: THE INDUS RIVER. Second Course. Grain, Grape, Olive: ANCIENT GREECE AND IMPERIAL ROME. THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. GREECE. THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Third Course. Crazy Bread, Coffee, and Courtly Manners: CHRISTENDOM, ISLAM, AND BYZANTIUM IN THE MIDDLE AGES, 500-1300. CHRISTENDOM: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES IN WESTERN EUROPE. THE MUSLIM EMPIRE: BAGHDAD. THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE: BYZANTIUM. CULTURE CLASH: THE CRUSADES. CHRISTENDOM: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE. Fourth Course. Tea, Chocolate, and the First Cookbook: MEDIEVAL ASIA, THE AMERICAS, AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE TO 1500. ASIA. EUROPE. THE AMERICAN EMPIRES. COLUMBUS SETS SAIL FOR THE AMERICAS: 1492. Fifth Course. The Columbian Exchange and the Protestant Reformation: SUGAR AND VICE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. OLD WORLD TO NEW. NEW WORLD TO OLD. JAPAN. EUROPE. Sixth Course. Thanksgiving, Hutspot, and Haute Cuisine: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, THE NETHERLANDS, RUSSIA, FRANCE. COLONIAL AMERICA. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE NETHERLANDS. THE RUSSIAN BEAR. FRANCE. Seventh Course. Election Cake and "Let Them Eat Cake": THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS-THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT. THE ENLIGHTENMENT. AMERICA: FROM COLONY TO COUNTRY. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: "LET THEM EAT CAKE." THE NAPOLEONIC ERA: 1799-1815. NAPOLEON'S AFTERMATH. Eighth Course. From Coyotes to Coca-Cola: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN AMERICA. "GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!" THE SOUTH. THE CIVIL WAR-1850-1865. RECONSTRUCTION-1865-1877. THE WEST: THE RAILROAD AND THE INDIAN WARS-1860s-1886. THE GILDED AGE. NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEALTH FOOD MOVEMENTS. Ninth Course. Sanitation, Nutrition, Colonization: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA. GERMS AND GENES. THE BRITISH EMPIRE. AFRICA ENSLAVED: WORKING FOR PEANUTS. INIDA: "THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN." CHINA: TEA AND OPIUM. EASTERN EUROPE. ITALY: UNIFIED COUNTRY, REGIONAL CUISINE. Tenth Course. The Purity Crusade, Cuisine Classique, and Communal Food: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. THE NEW IMMIGRANTS AND THE MELTING POT. PROGRESSIVES AND THE PURITY CRUSADE. DINING DE LUXE IN THE BELLE EPOQUE. WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Eleventh Course. Prohibition, Soup Kitchens, Spam, and TV Dinners: THE ROARING TWENTIES, THE DEPRESSION, WORLD WAR II, AND THE COLD WAR. THE ROARING TWENTIES IN THE UNITED STATES. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL. WORLD WAR II. POST-WORLD WAR II AND THE COLD WAR. THE FAST-FOOD FIFTIES. Twelfth Course. Revolutions in Cuisines and Cultures: FROM "BON APPETIT" TO "BAM!" THE 1960S INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM. THE SIXTIES: REVOLUTIONS IN COLOR. THE SEVENTIES: FOOD REVOLUTIONS. THE EIGHTIES: POLITICAL AND RESTAURANT REVOLUTIONS. THE NINETIES: THE RISE OF THE CELEBRITY CHEF. THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD. APPENDIX A: FRENCH PRONUNCIATION. APPENDIX B: ITALIAN PRONUNCIATION. APPENDIX C: MAJOR WARS AND BATTLES (NOT ANCIENT). APPENDIX D: SELECTED COOKBOOK AND FOOD BOOKS CHRONOLOGY. NOTES. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.

Afghanistan : a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban

Abstract: The only complete military history of Afghanistan, from battles fought by the ancient Greeks to those reported in this morning's headlines. . For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads--not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. As the United States engages in armed conflict with the current Afghan regime, an understanding of the military history of that blood-soaked land has become essential to every American. Afghanistan's military history provides lessons for us today. The earliest written records inform us of fierce mountain tribes on the "eastern" edge of the cradle of civilization. Alexander the Great conquered Afghanistan on his way from Persia to India. Later, because of its strategic location--the Silk Road passed through its mountainous northern region--Afghanistan was invaded in succession by Arabs, Mongols, and Tartars. In the nineteenth century, Great Britain tried--and failed--to add Afghanistan to its Indian empire, while Russia tried to expand into the same embattled land. Afghanistan once again fought--and defeated --Russia in the 1980's when it tried to prop up a secular government in the face of rising Islamic resistance. Now America must face a new enemy on this land--a land that for centuries has become a graveyard of empires past.

Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development

Abstract: Introduction: From the Other Shore Part I: Autocratic Russia, Lethargic Russians 1. An Empire of Climate 2. Endurance without Limit 3. Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor Part II: Revolutionary Russia, Instinctual Russians 4. Little above the Brute 5. Sheep without a Shepherd 6. Feeding the Mute Millions of Muzhiks Part III: Modernizing Russia, Backward Russians 7. New Society, New Scholars 8. The Romance of Economic Development 9. Starving Itself Great 10. Scratch a Soviet and You'll Find a Russian Epilogue: Russian Expertise in an Age of Social Science Sources Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

Regna and gentes : the relationship between late antique and early medieval peoples and kingdoms in the transformation of the Roman world

Abstract: List fo Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Hans-Werner Goetz The Empire, the gentes and the regna, Evangelos Chrysos The Leges Barbarorum: law and ethnicity in the post-Roman West Patrick Wormald Gens into regnum: the Vandals J.H.W.G. Liesbeschuetz Gens and regnum: among the Ostrogoths Peter Heather The enigmatic fifth century in Hispania: some historical problems Javier Arce Pro patriae gentisque Gothorum statv, Isabel Velazquez The Transformation of Hispania after 711 Ann Christys Gentes, kings and kingdoms- the emergence of states. The kingdom of the Gibichungs Ian N. Wood The relationship between Frankish gens and regnum a proposal based on the archaeological evidence Michael Schmauder Gens, kings and kingsdoms: the Franks Hans-Werner Goetz The Britons: from Romans to barbarians Alex Woolf Anglo-Saxon gentes and regna, Barbara Yorke Gens, rex and regnum of the Lombards Jorg Jarnut The Bavarians Matthias Hardt Avars and avar archaeology. An introduction Falko Daim A Non-Roman Empire in central Europe: the Avars alter Pohl Conclusion Bibliography Indices

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

Abstract: In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor Tiberius. Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is an outstanding example of how, if we examine "private" issues such as those of family and gender, we gain a greater understanding of "public" concerns such as politics, religion and history. Discussing evidence from sculpture to cults and from monuments to military history, the book pursues the changing lines between public and private, family and state that gave shape to the Roman imperial system.

Kingship and politics in the late ninth century : Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire

Abstract: List of maps and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on names, terminology and citations Outline chronology 1. Introduction 2. Un-Frankish activities: Charles the Fat in the eyes of contemporary annalists 3. The men who would be kings: the 'supermagnates' and the 'rise of the aristocracy' 4. Royal politics and regional power in the late Carolingian empire 5. The end of the Empire I: politics and ideology at the east Frankish court 6. The end of the Empire II: response and failure 7. History, politics and the end of the empire in Notker's Deeds of Charlemagne 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire

Abstract: Chapter 1 Boundries and Ethnicity, Chapter 2 Ethnicity in Antiquity: Ethnicity: Essential or Situational?, Bourdieu's Habitus and Ethnic Identity, Otherness and Ethnicity in Ancient Egypt, Chapter 3 Ethnicity and Archaeology: Finding Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record, Foodways and Ethnic Identity, Death and Ethnic Identity, Askut and Tombos, Chapter 4 Egypt and Nubia: Imperial Strategies and Native Agency, Bronze Age Center-Periphery Dynamics, Nubia in the Second Millenium B.C, Chapter 5 Life in Askut: Architecture, Material Culture, Ritual Contexts, Chapter 6 Death at Tombos: Architecture, Grave Goods, Ritual Practice, Chapter 7 Ideology and the Pharaohs: History or Propaganda?, Ethnic Stereotypes and Legitimization, Wretched Kush: Transmission of Ethnic Stereotypes, Chapter 8 Ethnicity, Agency and Empire: Women & Foodways at Askut, Monumentality and Display at Tombos, Was Kush 'Wretched'?

Which people's war? : national identity and citizenship in Britain 1939-1945

Abstract: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: National Identity and Citizenship 2. 'Who Killed Cock Robin?': The Wartime Nation and Class 3. 'Good-time' Girls and Quintessential Aliens 4. 'Be Truly Feminine': Contradictory Obligations and Ambivalent Representations 5. Temperate Heroes: Masculinity on the Home Front 6. Geographies of the Nation 7. 'The End is Bound to Come': Race, Empire, and Nation 8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts