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Book Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire

Download or read book Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire written by Maximilian Hartmuth and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the failed Siege of Vienna of 1683, the Ottoman Empire gradually withdrew from Europe. Even so, monumental reminders of its former presence survived across the continent. The contributors to this volume show that the various successor states adopted substantially different approaches towards their Ottoman architectural inheritance. Even within the same countries, different policies appear to have been pursued in different periods, in keeping with differing circumstances. Case studies inquire from diverse vantage points how this heritage has been coped with discursively and materially. Importantly, readers will find that it is almost impossible to disentangle these two levels of action.

Book The Ruins  Or  A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires

Download or read book The Ruins Or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires written by Coustantin François Volney and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ruins

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  • Author : Constantin-François Volney
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2016-10-16
  • ISBN : 9781333957186
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Ruins written by Constantin-François Volney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires IT has long been matter of complaint among. French writers, that those publications of theirs, which have been rendered into En glish, contain many inaccuracies and false translations. These arise from the greater part of those, who translate works from one language into another, pursuing that business as a profession, in order to obtain a living; their circumstances are necessitous, which too 2 often compel them to hurry through their translations, without paying that attention Which IS always necessary to investigate the true meaning of the author; to develope an ambiguous expression - to discover and re jcet, the obsolete meaning of a word, would consume too much time; hence arise false translations, But in this edition the trans lator was not under necessitous circumstances; he undertook it to oblige a friend, and had frequent opportunities of consulting the eu thor, and, several gentlemen distinguished equally for their knowledge of the French as of the English language.invocation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Ruins Or  Meditation of the Revolutions of Empires

Download or read book The Ruins Or Meditation of the Revolutions of Empires written by C.F. Volney and published by E C a Associates. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ruins Or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires and The Law of Nature

Download or read book The Ruins Or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires and The Law of Nature written by C F Volney and published by Iap - Information Age Pub. Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruins, Volney's most influential work, appeared in 1791, and soon became a revolution inside a revolution. According to the Britannica encyclopedia, The Ruins "epitomized the rationalist historical and political thought of the 18th century" and was among the most widely read ones in Europe until the 1850s, years when Volney was considered one of the most notorious philosophers in Europe. The Ruins inaugurated a new age of questioning, paving the path to academical research on the historicity of the real Christ, initially in Germany in the 19th century, and soon in whole Europe and in the United States. Today, scholars, experts in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, and University Professors write books published by Universities explaining how Gospels were really written, how biblical verses were forged, what kind of influence the miracles and teachings in the biblical gospels had from ancient myths etc.

Book The Ruins

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  • Author : Constantin-François Volney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1807
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Ruins written by Constantin-François Volney and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law of Nature

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  • Author : Constantin François Volney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1834
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Law of Nature written by Constantin François Volney and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperialism and Social Classes

Download or read book Imperialism and Social Classes written by Joseph A. Schumpeter and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many historical episodes. His account of the foreign policy of Imperial Rome reads like a critique of the US today. The second essay examines class mobility and political dynamics within a capitalistic society. Overall, a very important contribution to the literature of political economy.

Book European Elites and Ideas of Empire  1917 1957

Download or read book European Elites and Ideas of Empire 1917 1957 written by Dina Gusejnova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Book Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe

Download or read book Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe written by Thomas Laely and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

Book Monarchy Transformed

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  • Author : Robert von Friedeburg
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-17
  • ISBN : 1316510247
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Monarchy Transformed written by Robert von Friedeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. John I of Portugal (1358-1433), Charles VII (1403-1461) and Louis XI (1423-1483) of France, Henry VII and Henry VIII of England (1457-1509, 1509-1553), Isabella of Castile (1474-1504) and Ferdinand of Aragon (1479-1516) were, by improving royal administration, by bringing more continuity to communication with their estates and by introducing more regular taxation, all seen to have served that goal. In this view, princes were assigned to the role of developing and implementing the sinews of state as a sovereign entity characterized by the coherence of its territorial borders and its central administration and government. They shed medieval traditions of counsel and instead enforced relations of obedience toward the emerging 'state'."--Provided by publisher.

Book Internationalists in European History

Download or read book Internationalists in European History written by Jessica Reinisch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century. Reacting against the old Eurocentricism, much of the scholarship in the field has refocussed attention on other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to rethink the role played by ideas, people and organisations originating or located in Europe, including some of their consequential global impact. The chapters cover aspects of internationalism such as the importance of language, communication and infrastructures of internationalism; ways of grappling with the history of internationalism as a lived experience; and the roles of European actors in the formulation of different and often competing models of internationalism. It demonstrates that the success and failure of international programmes were dependent on participants' ability to communicate across linguistic but also political, cultural and economic borders. By bringing together commonly disconnected strands of European history and 'history from below', this volume rebalances and significantly advances the field, and promotes a deeper understanding of internationalism in its many historical guises. The volume is conceived as a way of thinking about internationalism that is relevant not just to scholars of Europe, but to international and global history more generally.

Book Heritage Regimes and the State

Download or read book Heritage Regimes and the State written by Bendix, Regina and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

Book Politics of Nature

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  • Author : Bruno Latour
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674039963
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Politics of Nature written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.

Book Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective

Download or read book Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective written by Magdalena Banaszkiewicz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives. An interdisciplinary volume covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book focuses on the engagement with cultural heritage in the context of mobility. The book presents a grassroots perspective of individual heritage performances by mobile and moving actors, analyzing them with close attention to their embodied aspects: bodily experiences, sensory impressions, and the affect and emotions they evoke. As a result, the collection of case studies presented covers empirical, theoretical, and methodological accounts of the embodiment of heritage in the context of mobility on macro, meso, and micro levels, exploring heritage change and mobility from a multisensory perspective. Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective is primarily targeted at scholars, students and practitioners working within and at the intersection of the fields of cultural heritage and mobility. It will also be of interest to those engaged in the study of tourism, migration and integration studies. Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14 and Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Book Imperial Debris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Laura Stoler
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-10
  • ISBN : 0822395851
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Imperial Debris written by Ann Laura Stoler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their durable traces on the material environment and people's bodies and minds. In their provocative, tightly focused responses to Stoler, the contributors explore subjects as seemingly diverse as villages submerged during the building of a massive dam in southern India, Palestinian children taught to envision and document ancestral homes razed by the Israeli military, and survival on the toxic edges of oil refineries and amid the remains of apartheid in Durban, South Africa. They consider the significance of Cold War imagery of a United States decimated by nuclear blast, perceptions of a swath of Argentina's Gran Chaco as a barbarous void, and the enduring resonance, in contemporary sexual violence, of atrocities in King Leopold's Congo. Reflecting on the physical destruction of Sri Lanka, on Detroit as a colonial metropole in relation to sites of ruination in the Amazon, and on interactions near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the contributors attend to present-day harms in the occluded, unexpected sites and situations where earlier imperial formations persist. Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, John F. Collins, Sharad Chari, E. Valentine Daniel, Gastón Gordillo, Greg Grandin, Nancy Rose Hunt, Joseph Masco, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, Ann Laura Stoler