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

  • Edited by: Sebastian Fahner , Christian Feichtinger and Rogier E.M. van der Heijden
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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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. This volume, on the other hand, offers a multi-disciplinary collection of studies that deal with the instrumentalization and ongoing impacts of perspectives on empire and their place in time. Coming from archaeology, history, art history, literary studies, and social sciences, the individual case studies discuss perceptions of imperial histories and imagined futures of empires, both in imperial and in post-imperial contexts. The transcending historical significance of the imperial ideas and ideals shows the deep and long-lasting effects of empire in landscapes, mindscapes, and social structures. The diachronic cut through all epochs from antiquity to modern times is complemented by a broad global view to deepen the temporal understanding of imperial imaginaries as well as their political implications.

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Sebastian Fahner, Christian Feichtinger, Rogier van der Heijden, University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter

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Acknowledgements

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Contents

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Authors

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Introduction: Politics of Pasts and Futures

Sebastian Fahner, Rogier E. M. van der Heijden and Christian Feichtinger
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Part I: Translatio Imperii
Emperor in his Own Castle: Francis’ I Translatio Imperii to Fontainebleau

Christine Tauber
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„da caput a cauda mundi.“ Zur Reziprozität metropolitaner Identität und (post-)imperialer Logik im mittelalterlichen Rom

Julian Zimmermann
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Building a Language of Power: the Early Abbasid Caliphs and Rum

Rhiannon Garth Jones
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Die Eroberung Alexandrias als Leitmotiv der Weimarer Republik

Peter S. Makhlouf
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Part II: Distant Pasts
Imperial Leapfrogging: How Empires Anchor Their Rule in the Past

Rolf Strootman
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Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Wadi B Temple of the Imperial Cult as Mnemonic Cluster

Rogier E. M. van der Heijden
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Political Justification of Territorial Expansion from Catherine II to Putin: Inventing “Novorossiya” in Imperial and in Post-imperial Context

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

Elena Fellner
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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

Sebastian Fahner
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Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society

Oliver Pejić
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Curating Indigeneity: Imperial Pasts and the Shaping of Communal Identities in the Malay Archipelago (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)

Jialin Christina Wu
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eBook published on:
November 18, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111229591
Hardcover published on:
November 18, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111219288
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Front matter:
10
Main content:
276
Coloured Illustrations:
25
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111229591
eBook ISBN: 9783111229591
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111219288
Keywords for this book
Imperial History; Temporality; Reception Studies; Politics of Memory
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(Art) historians, literary studies scholars, scholars in the field of imperial history, archaeologists, social scientists
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