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Record Nr.

UNISA996626270503316

Autore

Fahner Sebastian

Titolo

Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2024

©2025

ISBN

3-11-122959-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FeichtingerChristian

HeijdenRogier E. M

Disciplina

325.32

Soggetti

Imperialism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Authors -- Introduction: Politics of Pasts and Futures -- Part I: Translatio Imperii -- Emperor in his Own Castle: Francis' I Translatio Imperii to Fontainebleau -- „da caput a cauda mundi." Zur Reziprozität metropolitaner Identität und (post-)imperialer Logik im mittelalterlichen Rom -- Building a Language of Power: the Early Abbasid Caliphs and Rum -- Die Eroberung Alexandrias als Leitmotiv der Weimarer Republik -- Part II: Distant Pasts -- Imperial Leapfrogging: How Empires Anchor Their Rule in the Past -- Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Wadi B Temple of the Imperial Cult as Mnemonic Cluster -- Political Justification of Territorial Expansion from Catherine II to Putin: Inventing "Novorossiya" in Imperial and in Post-imperial Context -- Memories of Empire: Imaginaries of Pasts and Futures in Iranian Anti-regime Online Spaces -- Part III: Breaches and Continuities -- Internationalist Conviction, National Narratives, and Imperial History. A Study of Socialist Commemorative Culture in Austria-Hungary and Spain, 1898-1911 -- Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society -- Curating Indigeneity: Imperial Pasts and the Shaping of Communal Identities in the Malay Archipelago (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries).

Sommario/riassunto

Although empires have played a decisive role in political thinking and



the orientation of political goals at all times, the focus of research has so far mostly been on spatial and ideological aspects.