Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Transregional Practices of Power

Edited by: Milinda Banerjee, Julia C. Schneider and Simon Yarrow

ISSN: 2625-235X

e-ISSN 2625-2368

Overview
Volumes

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.

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The Colonial Dream

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

Damien Tricoire, Christine O'Neill

Volume 5 in this series

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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/10.0000/9783110715316
ISBN:: 9783110715316
ISBN:: 9783110715248
ISBN:: 9783110715354
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Colonial and Postcolonial History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2022

Wolves of Rome

The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives

Krešimir Vuković

Volume 2 in this series

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The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals – the Lupercalia, an annual celebration of youth and sexuality by Roman men and women. Written with clarity and force the book spans the whole of Roman history and takes the Lupercalia back to its Indo-European roots by presenting clear parallels between Roman and Indian traditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690118
ISBN:: 9783110690118
ISBN:: 9783110690187
ISBN:: 9783110689341
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2020

Against Anarchy

Political Alterity in Early Modernism

Cord-Christian Casper

Volume 1 in this series

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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
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Eastern Europe
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Political Ideologies and Ideas
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg