The representation of external threats : from the Middle Ages to the modern world
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The representation of external threats : from the Middle Ages to the modern world
(History of warfare, v. 123)
Brill, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and Maria Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories.
Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors.
Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, Maria Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanova, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O'Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noel Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Eberhard Crailsheim and Maria Dolores Elizalde
Part 1
Conceptual Approaches
1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research
Eberhard Crailsheim
2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism
Vladimir Belous
Part 2: Threat Communication
3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire
Theresia Raum
4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama
Marie Schreier
5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia
Simon C. Kemper
Part 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other
6 The Enemy Within: 'Gypsies' as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century
Stephan Steiner
7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia
Alexandr Osipian
8 The 'Pale of Settlement': a Particular Form of Separation of the 'Own' and the 'Alien' in the Russian Empire
Anna Abalian
Part 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World
9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914
Federico Niglia
10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England
Ionut Untea
11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch 'Great Assembly' (1651)
Irena Kozmanova
Part 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World
12 Translatio Imperii: the 'Enmification' of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898)
Rodrigo Escribano Roca
13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive
Derek Kane O'Leary
14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats
Pedro Ponte e Sousa
Part 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World
15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony
Jean-Noel Sanchez
16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century
Maria Dolores Elizalde
17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan
David Manzano Cosano
Part 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters
18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty
Srikanth Thaliyakkattil
19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain's Travel Writings in the 19th Century
Qiong Yu
Index
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