Memories of Empire: Imaginaries of Pasts and Futures in Iranian Anti-regime Online Spaces

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Authors IX
5. Introduction: Politics of Pasts and Futures 1
6. Part I: Translatio Imperii
7. Emperor in his Own Castle: Francis’ I Translatio Imperii to Fontainebleau 13
8. „da caput a cauda mundi.“ Zur Reziprozität metropolitaner Identität und (post-)imperialer Logik im mittelalterlichen Rom 39
9. Building a Language of Power: the Early Abbasid Caliphs and Rum 61
10. Die Eroberung Alexandrias als Leitmotiv der Weimarer Republik 79
11. Part II: Distant Pasts
12. Imperial Leapfrogging: How Empires Anchor Their Rule in the Past 107
13. Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Wadi B Temple of the Imperial Cult as Mnemonic Cluster 137
14. Political Justification of Territorial Expansion from Catherine II to Putin: Inventing “Novorossiya” in Imperial and in Post-imperial Context 165
15. Memories of Empire: Imaginaries of Pasts and Futures in Iranian Anti-regime Online Spaces 197
16. Part III: Breaches and Continuities
17. Internationalist Conviction, National Narratives, and Imperial History. A Study of Socialist Commemorative Culture in Austria-Hungary and Spain, 1898-1911 221
18. Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society 243
19. Curating Indigeneity: Imperial Pasts and the Shaping of Communal Identities in the Malay Archipelago (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries) 259