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Empire and Order

Autor: J. Muldoon

Número de Páginas: 218

Empire is an evocative, yet little examined, word. It can mean the domination of vast territories, a Christian world order, a corrupt form of government, or a humanitarian endeavour. Historians relegate the concept of empire to the pre-modern world, identifying the state as the characteristic political form of the modern world. This book examines the range of meanings attributed to the concept of empire in the medieval and early modern world, demonstrating how the concepts of empire and state developed in parallel, not sequentially.

Revista de cine

Número de Páginas: 484

Imperial Ends

Autor: Alexander J. Motyl

Número de Páginas: 188

Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and continuing relevance of empire—and asks, "Why do empires decline? Why do some empires collapse? And why do some collapsed empires revive?" Rejecting choice-centered theories of imperial decline, Motyl maintains that the very structure of empires promotes decay and that decay in turn facilitates the progressive loss of territory. Although most major empires have in fact declined in this manner, some, such as the Soviet Union, have collapsed suddenly and comprehensively. Motyl explains how and why collapse occurs, why such an outcome is hard to foresee, and why some collapsed empires revive. While broad-ranging historically and empirically, Imperial Ends focuses on five modern empires: the Soviet, Romanov, Ottoman, Habsburg, and Wilhelmine. Examining the possibility of a revival of the Soviet empire, Motyl points out that the expansion of NATO and the European Union, along with increasing globalization, will isolate Russia and its neighbors, promoting their dependence upon one another and perhaps facilitating the rise of...

Empires

Autor: Herfried Münkler

Número de Páginas: 261

This overview of Empire is from an eminent German scholar working in the field of imperialism. It also discusses the critical debates surrounding Empire by scholars such as Negri, Mann and Ingatieff.

4 acentos

Autor: Antonio García López, Raquel Barrionuevo Pérez, Borja Morgado Aguirre, José Mayor Iborra

Número de Páginas: 104

Empires

Autor: Michael Doyle

Número de Páginas: 411

Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies—those called metropoles—on other political societies—called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid ...

La Decadencia del Imperio Romano

Autor: Eduard Gibbon

Número de Páginas: 165

Historia de la Decadencia y Caída del Imperio Romano, publicada por primera vez en el año de 1776, de donde se extrae este fragmento, Eduard Gibbon, fruto de una acuciosa investigación en las fuentes originales, reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la civilización y la naturaleza humana En cierto sentido, atribuye este salto cualitativo en la historia de Europa, a los hallazgos éticos y a las instituciones del Imperio Romano. El optimismo de su visión, se convierte en una paradoja en el último párrafo del libro donde señala que “podemos entonces admitir la placentera conclusión, de que cada época del mundo ha incrementado, y seguirá incrementado la verdadera riqueza, la felicidad, el conocimiento, y quizás la virtud, de la raza humana”.

Teoría y práctica de la traducción

Autor: Valentín García Yebra

Número de Páginas: 500

Empire to Nation

Autor: Joseph Esherick , Hasan Kayalı , Eric Van Young

Número de Páginas: 444

Following a hit and run that injures his son, John Spector is shocked when the driver comes forward to confess the accident was planned and that John made the arrangements. Upset by the suggestion, he embarks on a quest that will take him through the bizarre underbelly of the city in search of the truth. Even when faced with demons bent on stopping him, haunted by dreams of a man he's never met or sidelined by concerns for his mental health, John remains unshakable. Only after his path leads to the philanthropist Charles Dapper does his determination waver, for this is when he must make an extraordinary self sacrifice to realize his goal or risk losing everything.

Empires in World History

Autor: Jane Burbank , Frederick Cooper

Número de Páginas: 528

Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.

Archivo americano y espíritu de la prensa del mundo

Número de Páginas: 768

Cine (y) digital

Autor: Jorge La Ferla

Número de Páginas: 273

Volver a pensar la idea de lenguaje cinematográfico implica reconsiderar algunos aspectos de la historia del cine en sus paulatinas combinaciones desde la máquina específica electromecánica y foto química original a sus paulatinas combinaciones, reemplazos y simulaciones por las tecnologías electrónicas y digitales. El objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre una posible idea de cine digital, una entelequia por cierto, a partir de la irrupción de las nuevas tecnologías, intentando aplicar conceptos de creación y puesta en escena para los formatos de ficción clásicos, el documental y las producciones inmersivas e interactivas híbridas experimentales. El intento es trazar un panorama analítico sobre las prácticas de realización que surgen de esta combinación entre el cine y la computadora. Asimismo este proceso nos lleva a reflexionar sobre ciertos mitos, que fueron signando la historia de las máquinas cinematográficas, y sobre una idea de puesta en escena a partir de las prácticas de realización y experimentación que permiten trazar un panorama sobre las posibilidades del cine digital. Esta publicación está pensada para docentes, estudiantes e...

Theories of Empire, 1450-1800

Autor: David Armitage

Número de Páginas: 432

Collection of 15 essays originally published 1949-1995.

The Fall of Empires

Autor: Chad Denton

Número de Páginas: 0

A Historical Survey of the Many Ways Empires have Succumbed to External and Internal Pressures There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth century, with its worldwide wave of decolonizing and liberation movements, the very word "empire" conjures images of slavery, war, repression, and colonialism. None of this is to say that empires are confined to the past, however. By at least some reasonable definitions, empires do exist today. Many articles and books speak about the decline of the "American Empire," for example, or compare the history of the United States to that of Rome or the British Empire. Yet no public official would speak candidly of American "imperial" interests in the Middle East or use the word "empire" in discussions of the nation's future the same way British politicians did in the twentieth century. In addition, empires don't have to fit the classical Roman mold; there are many kinds of empire and varieties of international authority, such as cultural imperialism and economic imperialism. But it is clear empires do not last, even those that once harnessed great wealth, strong armies, and sophisticated legal systems. InThe Fall of Empires: A...

The Span of Empire

Autor: Eric Flint , David Carrico

Número de Páginas: 595

A new novel in New York Times best seller Eric Flint's science fiction Jao Empire series. It has become clear to both the Jao and their human and Lleix partners that if they are going to defeat the Ekhat who have been terrorizing the galaxy for eons, they need more allies. To that end, Preceptor Ronz, guardian of Earth and greatest living strategist of the Jao, has harnessed the energy of Earth's humans to create and send out an exploration fleet under the command of Caitlin Kralik. But after a long search, all the expedition has found are dead worlds and now-extinct intelligent species slaughtered by the genocidal Ekhat. Do they continue to search down the galactic arm in which Earth and the Jao worlds lie, or do they make an astounding leap in another direction? With friends like Gabe Tully, Tamt, Wrot and Caewithe Miller supporting her, Caitlin makes her decision. Meanwhile, the Ekhat, as murderous and destructive as they have always been, have a new generation of leaders growing into power who are even more implacable than those who have gone before them. The Ekhat have not forgotten the Jao, nor the damage they have done over the years to the Ekhat purpose. It's up to the...

Gramática francesa

Autor: Francisco Anglada

Número de Páginas: 300

Esferas III

Autor: Peter Sloterdijk

Número de Páginas: 762

Con Espumas, Sloterdijk ha completado su ensayo, en tres partes, de una nueva narración de la historia de la humanidad. El concepto antropológico de esfera remite a la tesis fundamental del autor, según la cual la vida es un asunto de forma. Sugiere que «vivir, configurar esferas y pensar son expresiones diferentes para lo mismo». El primer volumen, Burbujas, reconstruía cómo por la coexistencia de seres humanos con seres humanos se produce un interior de tipo especial. El acento se ponía entonces en la tesis de que la pareja representa, frente al individuo, la magnitud más auténtica y real. En la novela filosófica Globos, segundo volumen de la serie, se narraba de qué forma el pensamiento metafísico clásico, como contemplación del todo redondo, se propaga por el mundo, el globo, y pone en marcha formas diversas de globalización. Espumas ofrece ahora una teoría filosófica de la época actual en la que se destaca que la vida se desarrolla multifocalmente. La imagen alegre de la espuma sirve para recuperar el pluralismo de las invenciones del mundo y para formular una interpretación antropológico-filosófica del individualismo moderno que va más allá de las...

Heirs of Empire

Autor: Weber

Número de Páginas: 544

Restoring the empire that had been destroyed forty-five years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet. Original.

The Glory of the Empire

Autor: Jean D'ormesson

Número de Páginas: 433

The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.

The Empire of Civilization

Autor: Brett Bowden

Número de Páginas: 570

The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, ..

Explicaciones de Derecho Civil Chileno y Comparado

Autor: Luis Claro Solar

Número de Páginas: 832

Visions of Empire

Autor: Krishan Kumar

Número de Páginas: 600

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected world The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects. Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires—Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French—showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of universal civilization to the rest of the world. Sometimes these aims were couched in religious terms, as with Islam for the Ottomans or Catholicism for the Habsburgs. Later, the imperial missions took more secular forms, as with British political traditions or the world communism of the Soviets. Visions of Empire offers new insights into the interactions between rulers and ruled, revealing how...

The Lost Empires of the Modern World

Autor: Walter Frewen Lord

Número de Páginas: 378

Empire

Autor: Steven Saylor

Número de Páginas: 720

In the international bestseller Roma, Steven Saylor told the story of the first thousand years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in Empire, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian. Through the eyes of the Pinarii, we witness the machinations of Tiberius, the madness of Caligula, the cruel escapades of Nero, and the chaos of the Year of Four Emperors in 69 A.D. The deadly paranoia of Domitian is followed by the Golden Age of Trajan and Hadrian-but even the most enlightened emperors wield the power to inflict death and destruction on a whim. Empire is strewn with spectacular scenes, including the Great Fire of 64 A.D. that ravaged the city, Nero's terrifying persecution of the Christians, and the mind-blowing opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novel's heart are the wrenching choices and seductive temptations faced by each new generation of the Pinarii. One unwittingly becomes the sexual plaything of the notorious Messalina. One enters into a clandestine affair with a Vestal virgin. One falls under the...

El Norte

Autor: Carrie Gibson

Número de Páginas: 519

«Esto es Historia en forma de diálogo, que prescinde de la autoridad doliente de los archivos y adopta la forma de una larga conversación, desde la premisa de que se puede alcanzar la verdad mediante una larga peregrinación, un viaje a través de la violencia, la discriminación, el racismo, la explotación y el infierno creado por la ocupación». THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. Durante mucho tiempo, los Estados Unidos se han preciado de su herencia anglosajona por encima de todas las demás. No obstante, tal como Carrie Gibson explica en El Norte con gran profundidad y nitidez, la nación tiene unas raíces hispanas mucho más antiguas, las cuales han permanecido largo tiempo ignoradas y marginalizadas. Su pasado hispánico precede en más de un siglo a la llegada del Mayflower, y es de todo punto igual de importante a la hora de dar forma a la nación tal como existe hoy en día. El Norte es una crónica de la extensa y dramática historia de la Norteamérica hispana, desde el desembarco inicial de Ponce de León en Florida en 1513, pasando por la toma de control del vasto territorio de la Luisiana por parte de España en 1762 o la guerra mexicano-estadounidense de 1846,...

Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire

Autor: Boris Chrubasik

Número de Páginas: 333

This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious.

La singular historia del rescate bancario mexicano de 1994 a 1999, y el relevante papel del Fobaproa

Autor: Francisco Javier Vega Rodríguez , Salvador Vega , Luz Elvira Quiroz

Número de Páginas: 788

Empire

Autor: James Laxer

Número de Páginas: 152

The United States presides over the most far-flung imperial system ever established. This thoughful study compares the American Empire to those of the past, finding much can be learned from the fates of the British, Roman, Chinese, Incan, and Aztec empires. Rome, like the U.S., was a military superpower. And just as Rome's armies were stretched thin, so too are America's -- but Rome's leaders eventually gave up on conquering Scotland. Will the U.S. do the same in Iraq? Laxer draws ominous parallels with the British, who discovered too late that empire building ultimately threatens the health of democracy at home. Documenting how the American Empire works and what it means to the rest of the world, Empire asks: Does the American Empire bring stability to a troubled world? Or, like its imperial predecessors, does it impose inequality and oppression on humanity? And what happens when an empire tumbles?

Gramática francesa reducida a reglas generales, ó sea Tratado completo de las diferencias gramaticales de la lengua francesa comparada con la española

Autor: Francisco Anglada

Número de Páginas: 296

El éxito a través del fracaso

Autor: Petroski, Henry

Número de Páginas: 249

Henry Petroski demuestra en este ensayo que el avance tecnológico y la mejora en el diseño son más una reacción ante la frustración por algo que no funciona bien que una forma de responder a nuevas necesidades. De esta manera el autor arroja una nueva luz sobre algunos fracasos espectaculares: desde los desastres de los transbordadores espaciales hasta la caída de las torres gemelas de Nueva York.

Empire: Renewal

Autor: Richard F. Weyand

Número de Páginas: 330

The Rise of the Seleukid Empire, 323–223 BC

Autor: John D. Grainger

Número de Páginas: 367

The first of three books on the ancient Greek dynasty “reads with the pull of a novel and shows how the new Empire rose and fell.”—Firetrench The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander’s death and the rise of Rome. The first king, Seleukos I, established a pattern of rule which was unusually friendly towards his subjects, and his policies promoted the steady growth of wealth and population in many areas which had been depopulated when he took them over. In particular the dynasty was active in founding cities from Asia Minor to Central Asia. Its work set the social and economic scene of the Middle East for many centuries to come. Yet these kings had to be warriors too as they defended their realm from jealous neighbors. John D Grainger’s trilogy charts the rise and fall of this superpower of the ancient world. In the first volume, he relates the remarkable twists of fortune and daring that saw Seleukos, an officer in an elite guard unit, emerge from the wars of the Diadochi (Alexander’s successors) in control of the largest and richest part of the empire of the late Alexander the Great. After his conquests and...

Dividing the Spoils

Autor: Robin Waterfield

Número de Páginas: 302

Everyone has heard of Alexander the Great, the famous conqueror. But what happened after his death to the lands he had conquered? It took forty years of world-changing warfare for his successors to carve up the empire. This thrilling period of unremitting warfare, treachery, assassination, passion, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter, has been neglected. Dividing the Spoils resurrects the fascinating story of this period - both the warfare and theworld-changing cultural developments that were taking place at the same time.

Estudios de poesía

Autor: Cedomil Goic

Número de Páginas: 268

Desde un tipo de análisis que se aproxima a la retórica y a la semiótica textual, Cedomil Goic aborda algunos temas fundamentales de la poesía chilena en sus grandes poemas: el extravío humano, la revelación o epifanía que lo salva, la autenticidad, el humor y la creación verbal, a partir de la obra de Andrés Bello, Alberto Blest Gana y Rubén Darío; Vicente Huidobro, Gabriela Mistral, Neruda, Gonzalo Rojas, Lihn, Parra y Miguel Arteche.

Rational Empires

Autor: Leo J. Blanken

Número de Páginas: 230

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is this more evident than in the intensifying competition for global resources. Leo J. Blanken explains imperialism through an analysis of the institutions of both the expanding state and its targets of conquest. While democratic states favoring free trade generally resort to imperialism only to preempt aggressive rivals—or when they have reason to believe another state’s political institutions will not hold up when making bargains—authoritarian states tend toward imperialism because they don’t stand to benefit from free trade. The result is three distinct strategies toward imperialism: actors fighting over territory, actors peaceably dividing territory among themselves, and actors refraining from seizing territory altogether. Blanken examines these dynamics through three case studies: the scramble for Africa, the unequal treaties imposed on Qing Dynasty China, and the evolution of Britain’s imperial policy in India. By...