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Book
01 Sep 2013
TL;DR: The most remarkable contrast in the political map of modern Europe is that presented by the vast area of Russia occupying half the Continent and the group of smaller territories tenanted by the Western Powers as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The most remarkable contrast in the political map of modern Europe is that presented by the vast area of Russia occupying half the Continent and the group of smaller territories tenanted by the Western Powers. The one and continuous ocean enveloping the divided and insular lands is, of course, the geographical condition of ultimate unity in the command of the sea, and of the whole theory of modern naval strategy and policy as expounded by such writers as Captain Mahan and Mr. Spenser Wilkinson. Outside the pivot area, in a great inner crescent, are Germany, Austria, Turkey, India, and China, and in an outer crescent, Britain, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Japan. The oversetting of the balance of power in favour of the pivot state, resulting in its expansion over the marginal lands of Euro-Asia, would permit of the use of vast continental resources for fleet-building, and the empire of the world would then be in sight.

888 citations


Book
26 Feb 2013
TL;DR: The River of Dark Dreams as mentioned in this paper explores the connections between the planters' pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence.
Abstract: When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War. Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters' pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton's dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale. But at the center of the story Johnson tells are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton--who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.

321 citations


Book
07 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as mentioned in this paper trace the roots of the black internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century from Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective.
Abstract: In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the canefields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present

181 citations



Book
14 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Huey and Bobby as mentioned in this paper describe the correct handling of a revolution in the context of policing the police and a national Uprising in the South Carolina National Uprising of 1871.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Introduction Part One Organizing Rage 1 Huey and Bobby 2 Policing the Police Part Two Baptism in Blood 3 The Correct Handling of a Revolution 4 Free Huey! 5 Martyrs 6 National Uprising Part Three Resilience 7 Breakfast 8 Law and Order 9 41st and Central 10 Hampton and Clark 11 Bobby and Ericka Part Four Revolution Has Come! 12 Black Studies and Third World Liberation 13 Vanguard of the New Left 14 International Alliance Part Five Concessions and Unraveling 15 Rupture 16 The Limits of Heroism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

143 citations


BookDOI
05 Jun 2013
TL;DR: Steinmetz as discussed by the authors discusses the relationship between the Durkheimian School and colonialism and the emergence of American Sociology in the context of empire, and the recent intensification of American economic and military Imperialism.
Abstract: Preface / George Steinmetz ix 1. Major Contributions to Sociological Theory and Research on Empire, 1830s-Present / George Steinmetz 1 Part I. National Sociological Fields and The Study of Empire 2. Russian Sociology in Imperial Context / Alexander Semyonov, Marina Mogilner, and Ilya Gerasimov 53 3. Sociology's Imperial Unconscious: The Emergence of American Sociology in the Context of Empire / Julian Go 83 4. Empire for the Poor: Imperial Dreams and the Quest for an Italian Sociology, 1870s-1950s / Marco Santoro 106 5. German Sociology and Empire: From Internal Colonization to Overseas Colonization and Back Again / Andrew Zimmerman 166 6. The Durkheimian School and Colonialism: Exploring the Constitutive Paradox / Fuyuki Kurasawa 188 Part II. Current Sociological Theories of Empire 7. The Recent Intensification of American Economic and Military Imperialism: Are They Connected? / Michael Mann 213 8. The Empire's New Laws: Terrorism and the New Security Empire after 9/11 / Kim Lane Scheppele 245 9. Empires and Nations: Convergence or Divergence? / Krishan Kumar 279 10. The New Surgical Imperialism: China, Africa, and Oil / Albert J. Bergesen 300 Part III. Historical Studies of Colonialism and Empire 11. Nation and Empire in the French Context / Emmanuelle Saada 321 12. Empire and Development in Colonial India / Chandan Gowda 340 13. Building the Cities of Empire: Urban Planning in the Colonial Cities of Italy's Fascist Empire / Besnik Pula 366 14. Japanese Colonial Structure in Korea in Comparative Perspective / Ou-Byung Chae 396 15. Native Policy and Colonial State Formation in Pondicherry (India) and Vietnam: Recasting Ethnic Relations, 1870s-1920s / Anne Raffin 415 16. The Constitution of State/Space and the Limits of "Autonomy" in South Africa and Palestine/Israel / Andy Clarno 436 17. Resistance and the Contradictory Rationalities of State Formation in British Malaya and the American Philippines / Daniel P. S. Goh 465 Conclusion. Understanding Empire / Raewyn Connell 489 Bibliography 499 List of Contributors 575 Index

139 citations


Journal Article
TL;DR: Burbank and Cooper as mentioned in this paper focus on identifying the internal process of rule, administration, identity formation, bargaining, and political legitimation strategies that have made empires such durable and recurring forms of political organization throughout world history.
Abstract: Pre-Ottoman and OttomanJANE BURBANK and FREDRICK COOPER, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2010), Pp. 528, $ 24.95 paperREVIEWED BY ALEXANDER COOLEY, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY; email: acooley@barnard.eduJane Burbank and Frederick Cooper of New York University have authored an extraordinary and compelling account of comparative imperial governance and imperial interactions. Rather than produce a definitive or comprehensive account of the major global empires, Empires in World History focuses with great care and precision on identifying the internal process of rule, administration, identity formation, bargaining, and the political legitimation strategies that have made empires such durable and recurring forms of political organization throughout world history.From the outset, the authors distance themselves from an explicitly normative understanding of imperial dynamics, opting instead for an analytical study of the comparative organization and bureaucratic strategies of imperial rule. This analytical move alone makes the book as valuable to sociologists and political scientists interested in empires and organizational dynamics, though historians might complain that much of the cultural nuance and context is lost through these simplifying analytical choices. Yet, the theoretical approach clearly pays off in the sheer scope of the book's inquiry and the explanatory power of its comparative insights.Moreover, de-emphasizing empire as a normative category does not lessen the importance of the work for understanding how particular modes of imperial governmentality institutionalized control, domination and repression. In fact, Burbank and Cooper's analytical focus on empire-states as durable forms of political organization pinpoints how difference, citizenship and hierarchy were managed across different cultures and eras. As the authors note in their chapter 6 account of the maritime empires and the rise of the slave trade, "[d]iplomacy and law were not focused on regulating relationships among equivalent states but gave legitimacy and order to a highly unequal world. If empire always implied governing different people differently, the empires of the Americas brought out explicit debates about what a politics of difference should be" (p. 184).Of the analytical topics, the most important is the careful analysis of the role of mediators or the local elites of each imperial project, especially their recruitment, status and monitoring by the center. All empires faced the acute problem of monitoring the actions and loyalty of their designated rulers, or in the social science literature "principal-agent" problems. Burbank and Cooper reveal the array of different solutions that structured the "vertical connections between rulers, their agents, and their subjects" (p. 14), carefully uncovering the logics, and occasional pathologies, of these mechanisms.Analytically, the examples are as varied as they are fascinating. Rome offered incentives, including citizenship, to elites and traders for rapid promotion and assimilation into its "rules-based order," while in the Chinese Qin laws and judicial matters were located exclusively in the imperial administrative apparatus, intentionally divorced from local nobles. The most extreme example of local accommodation was the highly decentralized Carolingian empire, under which "multiple hierarchies of allegiance made the empire hang together" (p. …

125 citations



Book
01 Jun 2013
TL;DR: The Ticklish Subject in Africa: Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa and Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of the Ticklish subject in Africa.
Abstract: Preface PART I: GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE Chapter 1 Introduction: Empire and Global Coloniality-Towards a Decolonial Turn Chapter 2 Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism Chapter 3 Coloniality of Power and African Development PART II: SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 4 The Ticklish Subject in Africa Chapter 5 Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa Chapter 6 Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe PART III: COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM Chapter 7 Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher Education Chapter 8 African National Project and National Question PART IV: CONCLUSION Chapter 9 Global Crisis and Africa Today Bibliography

101 citations


Book
14 Feb 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the materiality of nations, the US military career, and the resurgence and renewal of the United States empire in the 1970s and 1980s.
Abstract: Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Why Geopolitical Economy? 2. The Materiality of Nations 3. The US Imperial Career 4. Ambition and Realities 5. The Retrospection of Hegemony Stability Theory 6. Renewal? 7. Globalization? 8. Empire? 9. Conclusion: The Multipolar Moment References Index

97 citations


BookDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, Stern and Wennerlind present an alternative to Mercantilism, called Cameralism, which is a German alternative to the traditional Hartlibian economic model.
Abstract: List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction-Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind Part 1: Circulation 1. Population: Modes of Seventeenth-Century Demographic Thought, Ted McCormick 2. Labor: Employment, Colonial Servitude, and Slavery in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic, Abigail Swingen 3. Money: Hartlibian Political Economy and the New Culture of Credit, Carl Wennerlind Part 2: Knowledge 4. Epistemology: Expertise and Knowledge in the World of Commerce, Thomas Leng 5. Natural History and Improvement: The Case of Tobacco, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson 6. Cameralism: A German Alternative to Mercantilism, Andre Wakefield Part 3: Institutions 7. Corporations: Humanism and Elizabethan Political Economy, Henry S. Turner 8. Companies: Monopoly, Sovereignty, and the British East Indies, Philip J. Stern 9. The Church: Anglicanism and the Nationalization of Maritime Space, Brent S. Sirota 10. Pirates and Smugglers: Political Economy in the Red Atlantic, Niklas Frykman Part 4: Regulation 11. Polycentric States: The Spanish Reigns and the "Failures" of Mercantilism, Regina Grafe 12. Financial Markets: The Limits of Economic Regulation in Early Modern England, Anne L. Murphy 13. Consumption: Commercial Demand and the Challenges to Regulatory Power in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell Part 5: Conflict 14. War and Peace: Trade, International Competition, and Political Economy, John Shovlin 15. Neutrality: Atlantic Shipping in and after the Anglo-Dutch Wars, Victor Enthoven 16. Rivalry: Greatness in Early Modern Political Economy, Sophus A. Reinert Afterword: From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics-Craig Muldrew Index

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In his non-fiction writings, Pankaj Mishra has underlined the influence of colonialism and western modernity in structuring the world from which he gained his intellectual consciousness as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Often in his non-fiction writings, Pankaj Mishra has underlined the influence of colonialism and western modernity in structuring the world from which he gained his intellectual consciousness. Like...

Book
04 Feb 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a detailed overview of the history of the Church in the Middle Ages, focusing on three major stages: the Empire and Aftermath, the End of Ancient Christianity, the Divergent Legacies, and the New Christendoms.
Abstract: List of Maps. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Empire and Aftermath: AD 200-500. 1. 'The Laws of Countries": Prologue and Overview. 2. Christianity and Empire. 3. Tempora Christiana: Christian Times. 4. Virtutes sanctorum . strages gentium: "Deeds of Saints . Slaughter of Nations". 5. On the Frontier: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia. Part II: Divergent Legacies: AD 500-750. 6. Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours. 7. Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome. 8. Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great. Part III: The End of Ancient Christianity: AD 600-750. 9. Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe. 10. The Making of a Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe. and in Ireland. 11. Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus. 12. Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam. 13. "The Changing of the Kingdoms": Christians under Islam. 14. Christianities of the North: Ireland. 15. Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain. 16. Micro-Christendoms. Part IV: New Christendoms: AD 750-1000. 17. The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy. 18. Closing the Frontier: Frisia and Germany. 19. "To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne. 17. In gear gagum: "In Days of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past. Notes. Coordinated Chronological Tables. Bibliography: Primary Sources Secondary Sources. Index.

MonographDOI
20 Feb 2013
TL;DR: This paper explored China's altered understanding of its place in a global context by unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India.
Abstract: Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.

Book
24 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Webs of Empire as discussed by the authors offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the complex nature and impact of empire building, and also offers an analysis of New Zealand's colonial past and engages with the historiography and craft of the historian.
Abstract: BOOK OVERVIEW These essays offer an in-depth and critical analysis of the complex nature and impact of empire building. Webs of Empire centres around the principal argument that colonisation and imperialism was more than a flow of influence from London to the colonies, and was rather a ‘complex mesh of flows, exchanges and engagements that linked New Zealand to other colonies as well as to Britain, the heart of the empire’. This work also offers an analysis of New Zealand’s colonial past and engages with the historiography and craft of the historian. These are new perspectives on New Zealand’s national story and pointed reference that New Zealand history is more than just Māori and Pākehā relations. Ballantyne also discusses the role historians have played in the development of national identity, for example the entrenchment of the view that New Zealand is bicultural. He responds by outlining the influence that other ethnic groups, such as Indian immigrants, have had on the development of the New Zealand landscape.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly "dronified" US national security strategy as mentioned in this paper, where large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by fleets of weaponised drones capable of targeted killings across the planet.
Abstract: This paper critically assesses the CIA's drone programme and proposes that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly “dronified” US national security strategy. The paper suggests that large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by fleets of weaponised drones capable of targeted killings across the planet. Evidence for this shift is found in key security documents that mobilise an amorphous conflict against vaguely defined al-Qa'ida “affiliates”. This process is legitimised through the White House's presentation of drone warfare as a bureaucratic conflict managed by a “disposition matrix”. These official narratives are challenged by the voices of people living in the tribal areas of Pakistan. What I term the Predator Empire names the biopolitical power that digitises, catalogues, and eliminates threatening “patterns of life” across a widening battlespace. This permanent war is enabled by a topological spatial power that folds the distant environments of the affiliate into the surveillan...

Dissertation
08 Oct 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the distribution patterns of Byzantine coins in Italy, Greece and Western Asia Minor have been studied, from the end of the Eleventh through the Thirteenth Centuries.
Abstract: iii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi General Introduction 1 Part 1 Money and its Circulation in Italy, Greece and Western Asia Minor Introduction. Circulation Patterns of Byzantine Coins in Italy and Asia Minor: an Overview 35 Eleventh and Post-Eleventh Century Variations in Coin Circulation between Italy and Eastern Asia Minor 39 The Numismatic Context from the End of the Eleventh through the Thirteenth Centuries 42 Chapter 1 Distribution Patterns of Byzantine Coins in Italy (From the Eleventh through the Fourteenth Century) 55 Chapter 2 Hoards from Greece and Western Asia Minor: Regional Differences in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 81 Chapter 3 Excavations from Greece and Asia Minor Analysis of the Numismatic Evidence from Excavations in Greece 118 Excavations from Western Asia Minor: Pergamon, Sardis, and Minor Sites 136 Conclusions to Part 1 150 Part 2 Ceramics and Exchange in the Post-Conquest Byzantine World Introduction 154 Chapter 4 Production and Distribution of Byzantine Ceramics in Asia Minor and Greece: New Evidence for their Development and Spread 158 Constantinopolitan White Wares and the Provincial Sgraffitos at a Glance 158 Chapter 5 Production and Distribution: Byzantine Ceramics in Asia Minor between the Late Eleventh and Mid-Thirteenth Centuries 189

Book
23 Apr 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, identity politics in the Later Roman Empire is discussed, focusing on the role of the emperor in the formation of the Roman Empire. But, the authors do not discuss the relationship between the emperor and his subjects, and do not address the question of what difference does an Emperor make.
Abstract: Introduction: Identity Politics in the Later Roman Empire Chapter 1. Philosophers, Apologists, and Empire Chapter 2. Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and Others Chapter 3. Vera Religio and Falsae Religiones: Lactantius's Divine Institutes Chapter 4. What Difference Does an Emperor Make? Apologetics and Imperial Ideology in Constantine's Oration to the Saints and Imperial Letters Chapter 5. From Hebrew Wisdom to Christian Hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's Apologetics and Panegyrics Epilogue: Empire's Palimpsest Appendix: Porphyry's Polemics and the Great Persecution List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Book
21 Aug 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the transformative historical experience of a large category of actors-ex-colonies, who have previously been neglected in the study of international relations-can be used as a method to categorize states in the international system.
Abstract: Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way-by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new ground by blending this historical phenomenon, colonialism, with mixed methods-including archival research, newspaper data mining, and a new statistical method of content analysis-to explain the foreign policy choices of India and China: two countries that are continuously discussed but very rarely rigorously compared. By reference to their colonial past, Manjari Chatterjee Miller explains their puzzling behavior today. More broadly, she argues that the transformative historical experience of a large category of actors-ex-colonies, who have previously been neglected in the study of international relations-can be used as a method to categorize states in the international system. In the process Miller offers a more inclusive way to analyze states than do traditional theories of international relations.

Book
25 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The origins of U.S. public diplomacy can be traced back to the Latin American origins of the United States' public diplomacy as mentioned in this paper and the drift of history: war, culture, and hegemony.
Abstract: Introduction: The Origins of U.S. Public Diplomacy Ch 1 "Down with Imperialism": The Latin American Origins of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy Ch 2 "The Drift of History": War, Culture, and Hegemony Ch 3 Propaganda as Foreign Policy: The Office of War Information Ch 4 "Foreign Relations, Domestic Affairs": The Consolidation of U.S. Public Diplomacy Ch 5 "The Flat White Light": Revolutionary Nationalism in Asia and Beyond Ch 6 "An Unfavorable Projection of American Unity": McCarthyism and Public Diplomacy Epilogue The Creation of the USIA and the Fate of U.S. Public Diplomacy Notes Bibliography Index

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take as its focus the drawn-out process of disengagement that followed formal independence in relation to one case study: the various ways in which Britain sought to square the working of its 1948 Nationality Act with Indian and Pakistani citizenship legislation that took shape in the 1950s.
Abstract: Independence in the case of British India occurred at relatively short notice in August 1947, but tying up the loose ends of empire stretched over years. Under these circumstances, the realignment of subjecthood and citizenship necessitated by decolonisation was protracted, and raised complex questions about identity in both the new states of India and Pakistan and the former imperial power itself. This article thus takes as its focus the drawn-out process of disengagement that followed formal independence in relation to one case study: the various ways in which Britain sought to square the working of its 1948 Nationality Act with Indian and Pakistani citizenship legislation that took shape in the 1950s. India and Pakistan faced the common challenge of establishing who now belonged within their new borders. Britain likewise was forced to recalibrate its ideas about nationality and think afresh about the rights of its subjects in view of the new sets of relationships that now linked colonies, old dominions...

BookDOI
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Benton et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the legal pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and the role of women in the legal system in the development of the modern legal system, and discussed the relationship between justice and economics.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1 Empires and Legal Pluralism Lauren Benton and Richard J. RossPart I: Composite Polities across Empires 2 "Bundles of Hyphens"Philip J. Stern 3 Litigating EmpireHelen DewarPart II: Political and Religious Imagination 4 Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman EmpireKaren Barkey 5 Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern 6 Between Justice and EconomicsBrian P. OwensbyPart III: Constructing Imperial Jurisdiction 7 Magistrates in Empire Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford 8 "Seeking the Water of Baptism"Linda M. Rupert 9 "A Pretty Gov[ernment]!"P. G. McHughPart IV: Concluding Perspectives 10 Laws' HistoriesPaul D. Halliday 11 Rules of Law, Politics of Empire Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper About the Contributors Index

Book
12 Feb 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a large body of Latin artes grammaticae, attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian, are studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship.
Abstract: Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts-the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian-have long been studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship. In Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, Catherine Chin instead finds within them an opportunity to probe the connections between religious ideology and literary culture in the later Roman Empire. To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire. In bringing together and reevaluating fundamental topics from the fields of religious studies, classics, education, and literary criticism, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World offers readers from these disciplines the opportunity to reconsider the basic conditions under which religions and cultures interact.


Book
21 Dec 2013
TL;DR: A new IR for a new world? The growth of an academic field since 1945 is discussed in this paper, where international relations in living memory and lessons for the future are discussed.
Abstract: 1 Introduction Part I International Relations Before the Study of International Relations 2 The origins of the modern state and the creation of international relations by mistake 3 Reaction and reform: patriarchal order and the Enlightenment response 4 A new global political economy? Part II The Emergence of the Discipline of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND the Great Crisis of Humanity 5 The geopolitics of empire and the international anarchy, 1880-1918 6 The new world: international government and peaceful change, 1919-1935 7 Collapse and war: continuity and change in IR theory, 1936-1945 Part III Conclusion: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in Living Memory AND Lessons for the Future 8 A new IR for a new world? The growth of an academic field since 1945

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The authors argue that American basing practices and relations combine elements of liberal multilateralism with "neo-imperial" hegemony and argue that the U.S. is vulnerable to political cross-pressures, intermediary exits, and periodic bargaining failures when dealing with overseas base hosts.
Abstract: Many commentators refer to the U.S. overseas network of military installations as an “empire,” yet very few have examined the theoretical and practical significance of such an analogy. This article explores the similarities and differences between the basing network and imperial systems. We argue that American basing practices and relations combine elements of liberal multilateralism with “neo-imperial” hegemony. Much, but far from all, of the network shares with ideal-typical empires a hub-and-spoke system of unequal relations among the United States and its base-host country “peripheries.” But Washington rarely exercises rule over host-country leaders and their constituents. Historical examples suggest that this combination of imperial and non-imperial elements has rendered the United States vulnerable to political cross-pressures, intermediary exits, and periodic bargaining failures when dealing with overseas base hosts. Moreover, globalizing processes, especially increasing information flows and the transnational networking of anti-base movements, further erode U.S. capacity to maintain multivocal legitimation strategies and keep the terms of its individual basing bargains isolated from one another. Case studies of the rapid contestation of the terms of the U.S. basing presence in post-Soviet Central Asia and post-2003 Iraq illustrate some of these dynamics.

Book
25 Jun 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the history of building institutions in the United Kingdom from 1802-80 and from 1880-1914, focusing on the following: 1. Foundations, 1802 -80 2. Forging links 3. Making appointments 4. Imperial association 5. Academic traffic 6. The Great War 7. After the peace 8. Erosions, 1919-60 8. Alternate ties
Abstract: General Editor's introduction Introduction Part I: Foundations, 1802-80 1. Building institutions Part II: Connections, 1880-1914 2. Forging links 3. Making appointments 4. Imperial association Part III: Networks, 1900-39 5. Academic traffic 6. The Great War 7. After the peace Part IV: Erosions, 1919-60 8. Alternate ties Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index -- .

Book
15 Mar 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, Anatomies of state violence and the (in)execution of law are discussed. But the authors focus on the execution of law and do not address the role of the executioner.
Abstract: Introduction: Anatomies of State Violence and the (In)Execution of Law 1. Biopolitical Caesura of State Violence 2. Shadow Archives of Torture 3. Biopolitcal Hierarchies of Life 4. Epidemiologies of State Bioterror 5. Black Sites, Redacted Bodies 6. Prosthetics of Empire and the Anomic Violence of Drones

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative ...

Book
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The position of the Jews in the Tsarist Empire, 1881-1905, revolution and reaction, 1904-1914, and Kingdom of Poland, 1848 -1914 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: List of Maps List of Tables Note on Transliteration Maps Introduction 1 The Position of the Jews in the Tsarist Empire, 1881-1905 2 Revolution and Reaction, 1904-1914 3 The Kingdom of Poland, 1881-1914 4 Galicia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 5 Prussian Poland, 1848-1914 6 Jewish Spaces: Shtetls and Towns in the Nineteenth Century Statistical Appendix 7 Modern Jewish Literature in the Tsarist Empire and Galicia 8 Jewish Religious Life from the Mid-Eightteenth Century to 1914 9 Women in Jewish Eastern Europe 10 The Rise of Jewish Mass Culture: Literature, Press, Theatre Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index