Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Transregional Practices of Power

Herausgegeben von: Milinda Banerjee, Julia C. Schneider und Simon Yarrow

ISSN: 2625-235X

e-ISSN 2625-2368

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The series aims at publishing works operating at the intersections of political theory, intellectual and conceptual history, and empirically dense socio-economic and political analyses of power. The works published in this series will place particular emphasis on the transregional – transimperial, transnational, transcultural – and the transtemporal orientation of political concepts and practices of power, with a special focus on idioms of rulership, political normativity and order, as well as subversion and rebellion against such regimes.

Fachgebiete

Buch 2023

The Colonial Dream

Imperial Knowledge and the French-Malagasy Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment

Damien Tricoire, Christine O'Neill

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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European expansion began in the early modern period, but in the 18th century Europeans were still far from establishing their rule in Africa or Asia. Many attempts at expansion failed miserably. Nevertheless, the belief in European supremacy and civilizing charisma was consolidated. This study examines the reasons for these unrealistic plans and shows how a gap developed between imperial aspirations and the reality of intercultural encounters. Using the history of French attempts at expansion in Madagascar as an example, it analyses the unfolding of colonial fantasy, the production of bureaucratic knowledge and the role of the Enlightenment in the development of colonialism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715316
ISBN:: 9783110715316
ISBN:: 9783110715248
ISBN:: 9783110715354
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Colonial und Postcolonial History
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

Wolves of Rome

The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives

Krešimir Vuković

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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The Roman foundation myth has been the subject of classical scholarship for centuries. But much in the story of Romulus and Remus remains unexplained.

This is the first English language book-length study of the Lupercalia, a religious festival central to understanding both the Roman foundation myth and the history of Rome. The festival of the Lupercalia was a male initiation ritual and shares a number of traits with similar rituals across the world. The agonistic elements in the story of Romulus and Remus and the Lupercalia can be compared to a number of Vedic rituals and traced back to a common Indo-European prehistory. The Lupercalia celebration remained a central annual event throughout the history of Rome and reflected political and social life in the city. Caesar used it to stage a refusal of kingship and Augustus restored its initiatory aspect, which continued in the period of the Empire. It survived all attempts of Christian prohibition to appear in the form of a carnival that criticized the pope in the late 5th century.

In sum, the book offers a new interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and the Lupercalia. It follows the transformation of a unique ritual from its Indo-European roots through Roman history to late antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690118
ISBN:: 9783110690118
ISBN:: 9783110690187
ISBN:: 9783110689341
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Alte Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Alte Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2020

Against Anarchy

Political Alterity in Early Modernism

Cord-Christian Casper

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics.
The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside.
'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110645873
ISBN:: 9783110645873
ISBN:: 9783110646443
ISBN:: 9783110644654
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Ideologien und politische Ideen
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 19. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Indian Boardgames, Colonial Avatars

Transculturation, Colonialism and Boardgames

Souvik Mukherjee

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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How did an Indian game meant to teach the process of rebirth change into the children’s race-game, Snakes and Ladders? Why does the Bengali language use Dutch loan-words for the suits of cards? How do the rules of Chess change in India and Europe? The answers to these and other related questions can be obtained after examining in depth the relationship of colonialism to boardgames. Focusing on Indian boardgames and their European versions, this book explores how the Empire’s games has had a signal effect on identity and culture in the formerly colonized countries of the Global South.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110758627
ISBN:: 9783110758627
ISBN:: 9783110758467
ISBN:: 9783110758733
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Südasien
Fachgebiet:: Indien
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Colonial und Postcolonial History
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg