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Empire and Democracy. A critical reading of Michael Ignatieff
2013
Empires expand their hegemony combined two contrasting forces; one is violence the second is characterized by persuasion. Ideology works in these contexts, as an efficient instrument of self-indoctrination whereby dominated cultures accept the cultural matrix of empire. In this vein, the present essay-review not only questions the employment of human rights in the liberal thought, but also tries to respond to the conceptual problems of liberalism to understand terrorism. Based on two seminal texts written by the liberal Michael Ignatieff, we formulate the thesis that liberalism supports the war against terror because of its doctrine of self-determination.
« Dans la famille Nodier, je voudrais… le cousin ! » (note sur Claude-Pierre Pajol)
2020
Notice biographique sur Claude-Pierre Pajol (1772-1844), Général d'Empire, Pair de France et cousin de Charles Nodier.
Peter Brown & Rita Lizzi Testa (eds.), Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: The Breaking of a Dialogue (IVth–VIth Century A.D.). Proceeding…
2013
Before newspapers and the telegraph: information distribution in Livland more than two hundred years ago
2020
This paper concerns information dissemination in the Livland province of the Russian Empire at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, when its rulers sent their orders to the provincial capital, Riga, by horse post. In Riga they were translated into German, and the ancient network of information dissemination used by the Lutheran Church was engaged. The orders of both the Empire and provincial rulers were delivered to Lutheran pastors, who announced this information to their parishes from the pulpit, speaking in Latvian or Estonian so as to be understood by local peasants (serfs), and allowed the texts to circulate around the manors of the parish. The infrastructure of th…
La coronación de Agustín I de México en los sermones religiosos impresos
2020
Este artículo analiza los cuatro sermones publicados sobre la coronación del militar Agustín de Iturbide como emperador del Imperio mexicano, que tuvo lugar en la catedral metropolitana el 21 de julio de 1822. A través de dichos documentos se estudian los referentes político-culturales y religiosos que manejaron los autores eclesiásticos a la hora de legitimar al nuevo emperador y explicar el proceso que había llevado hasta su coronación. Las opiniones que sostuvieron permiten un acercamiento a las interpretaciones que realizaron sobre la independencia del país, así como al modelo de gobierno que idearon. También se observan las pretensiones de buscar un encaje privilegiado para la Iglesia …
India Re-loaded: Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire as a Postcolonial Novel
2012
Once “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire, India for some time ceased to be the focus of interest for the British writers. Largely due to the success of its film version, Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire (Black Swan, London, 2005, originally called Q and A) again drew the attention of the Western world to the problems postcolonial India has to face: poverty, crime, sex abuse, exploitation of children, police brutality and many more. In this paper, however, we are not going to compare the two versions of the story, i.e. the novel and the film, but primarily concentrate on the textual commentaries in the context of postcolonial theory and literature. Of particular interest for us …
Independencia o Constitución: América en el Trienio Liberal
2020
El Trienio Liberal fue la segunda oportunidad para establecer una monarquía constitucional en España y en los territorios americanos. Los diputados de América que participaron en los debates parlamentarios plantearon, una vez más, las propuestas de autogobierno y autonomía que el sistema constitucional les permitía. En este sentido, pusieron sus esperanzas en la Constitución de 1812 que, si bien era inclusiva, su rigidez impedía la modificación de la estructura jurídica y territorial del imperio. En este trabajo, pretendemos acercarnos a las propuestas y debates políticos que sobre la posible modificación de la Constitución se tuvieron en las Cortes del Trienio Liberal (1820-1823) para comp…
STATE BUILDING, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER REGIME IN NORTHEASTERN ETHIOPIA, c. 1944–75
2016
AbstractCombining a set of grey literature and primary sources, this article analyses the rise and fall of the sultanate of Awsa, northeastern Ethiopia, between 1944 and 1975. Ali Mirah exploited the typical repertoires of a frontier regime to consolidate a semi-independent Muslim chiefdom at the fringes of the Christian empire of Ethiopia. Foreign investors in commercial agriculture provided the sultanate and its counterparts within the Ethiopian state with tangible and intangible resources that shaped the quest for statecraft in the Lower Awash Valley.
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: Re-narrating Roman Britannia, De-essentialising European History
2019
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001) contributes to the imaginative disentanglement of the traditional British ethnicity-and-nation nexus and questions the related founding myth of racial purity by featuring the character of Zuleika, a young black woman who is born of Sudanese parents in Roman London. Through the depiction of Zuleika, Evaristo offers a subversive reshaping of some versions of the official British national history in the context of a wider revision of the European classical past. However, in spite of its temporal setting, Evaristo’s historical novel simultaneously engages with contemporary issues of gendered racialisation and national belonging. In its highly orch…
Oddawanie czci władcy w Rzymie w okresie cesarstwa na przykładzie manus velatae i silentiarii
2019
During the Roman Empire period, the ruler was venerated in many ways. Prostration, proskynesis, referring to the emperor as dominus; adora-tio purpurae; manus velatae; observing the ritual silence; and other rituals were supposed to strengthen the emperor’s authority. During the period of Dominate, the Roman freedom was replaced by etiquette at the imperial court. This article discusses only two examples of veneration of the ruler in the Roman Empire period, namely manus velatae and silentiarii. The manus velatae ritual consisted of giving hands covered with a cloth to the ruler and receiving objects from him in such hands. The gesture had already been encountered in many ancient cultures, …