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Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139501860 |
In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr Burton charts the impact of the psychology, language and gestures associated with the Roman concept of amicitia, or 'friendship'. The book challenges the prevailing orthodox Cold War-era realist interpretation of Roman imperialism and argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle. Using a constructivist theoretical framework drawn from international relations, Dr Burton replaces the modern scholarly fiction of a Roman empire built on networks of foreign clients and client-states with an interpretation grounded firmly in the discursive habits of the ancient texts themselves. The results better account for the peculiar rhythms of Rome's earliest period of overseas expansion - brief periods of vigorous military and diplomatic activity, such as the rolling back of Seleucid power in Asia Minor and Greece in 192–188 BC, followed by long periods of inactivity.
Author | : Arthur I. Miller |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780618341511 |
A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Author | : Vanessa Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139788620 |
When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
Author | : Rachel Applebaum |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501735586 |
The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive socialist world. This friendship project resulted in a new type of imperial control based on cross-border contacts between ordinary citizens. In a new and fascinating story of cultural diplomacy, interpersonal relations, and the trade of consumer-goods, Applebaum tracks the rise and fall of the friendship project in Czechoslovakia, as the country evolved after World War II from the Soviet Union's most loyal satellite to its most rebellious. Throughout Eastern Europe, the friendship project shaped the most intimate aspects of people's lives, influencing everything from what they wore to where they traveled to whom they married. Applebaum argues that in Czechoslovakia, socialist friendship was surprisingly durable, capable of surviving the ravages of Stalinism and the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring. Eventually, the project became so successful that it undermined the very alliance it was designed to support: as Soviets and Czechoslovaks got to know one another, they discovered important cultural and political differences that contradicted propaganda about a cohesive socialist world. Empire of Friends reveals that the sphere of everyday life was central to the construction of the transnational socialist system in Eastern Europe—and, ultimately, its collapse.
Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Friendship |
ISBN | : 9781139190015 |
Argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle.
Author | : Leela Gandhi |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2006-01-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822337157 |
DIVInvestigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography./div
Author | : Suzanne Stern-Gillet |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438453655 |
Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world. Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the souls relation to Godand that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.
Author | : Luke B. Yarbrough |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108496601 |
Reveals how early Muslims devised and elaborated normative views concerning non-Muslim state officials at moments of intense competition.
Author | : Craig A. Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107003652 |
A comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead.
Author | : Jason Shiga |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011-06-24 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1613121539 |
Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building (a nod to their ongoing debate about Sleepless in Seattle). Jimmy's cross-country bus trip to Manhattan is as hapless and funny as Jimmy himself. When he arrives in the city he's thought of as "a festering hellhole," he's surprised by how exciting he finds New York, and how heartbreaking—he discovers Sara has a boyfriend! Jason Shiga's bold visual storytelling, sly pokes at popular culture, and subtle text work together seamlessly in Empire State, creating a quirky graphic novel comedy about the vagaries of love and friendship. Praise for Empire State: "He [Shiga] displays a wicked sense of comic timing." -Publishers Weekly "Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) is funny, sweet, geeky and affecting, and definitely worth a read." -Wired.com "Shiga's illustrations . . . are unique and endearing, and his images of NYC are instantly recognizable." -am New York "If Woody Allen grew up in Oakland rather than Manhattan, he'd most likely see the world, and especially New York City, as Jason Shiga does in Empire State." -Big Think.com