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Animating Empire

Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081511
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Animating Empire written by Jessica Keating and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Animating Empire

Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027108149X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Animating Empire written by Jessica Keating and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Gifts in the Age of Empire

Author : Sinem Arcak Casale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820424
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Gifts in the Age of Empire written by Sinem Arcak Casale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures—such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives—flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives. Tracing this elaborate archive, Casale treats gifts as representative of the complicated Ottoman-Safavid coexistence, demonstrating how their rivalry was shaped as much by culture and aesthetics as it was by religious or military conflict. Gifts in the Age of Empire explores how gifts were no mere accessories to diplomacy but functioned as a mechanism of competitive interaction between these early modern Muslim courts.

Empire of Religion

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611757X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Religion written by David Chidester and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.

The American Empire and the Fourth World

Author : Anthony J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773530065
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The American Empire and the Fourth World written by Anthony J. Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.

A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance

Author : Isabella Lazzarini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350102733
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance written by Isabella Lazzarini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance, explores peace in the period from 1450 to 1648. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the early modern era.

Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts). Nobleman's letters. Goody two-shoes. Index

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts). Nobleman's letters. Goody two-shoes. Index by : Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts). Nobleman's letters. Goody two-shoes. Index written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts) Nobleman's letters. Goody Two-shoes. Index

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts) Nobleman's letters. Goody Two-shoes. Index by : Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts) Nobleman's letters. Goody Two-shoes. Index written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Leviathan

Author : Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809095157
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book American Leviathan written by Patrick Griffin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

The Graphic Bible from Genesis to Revelation in Animated Maps & Charts

Author : Lewis Browne
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Graphic Bible from Genesis to Revelation in Animated Maps & Charts by : Lewis Browne

Download or read book The Graphic Bible from Genesis to Revelation in Animated Maps & Charts written by Lewis Browne and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic Bible that has maps and time lines that tell the stories of the Bible along with written text. Designed to interest children in the reading of the Bible.

Menace to Empire

Author : Moon-Ho Jung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387767
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Menace to Empire written by Moon-Ho Jung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian racism. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of race and empire traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects, from the Philippines and Hawaiʻi to California and beyond. Jung examines how various revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics that engendered and haunted the national security state—the heart and soul of the US empire ever since.

The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam

Author : Angela Vanhaelen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091908
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam written by Angela Vanhaelen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens—where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts—shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform. Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Author : Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Statistical Society written by Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.

Alexander the Great

Author : Hugh Bowden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198706154
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Hugh Bowden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest to have yet existed, and in the process had a profound effect on the world he moved through. In this examination of his life and career, Hugh Bowden explores his cultural and historical legacy.

A History of the Earth and Animated Nature

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire's Twin

Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455707
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Twin written by Ian Tyrrell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire's Twin broadens our conception of anti-imperialist actors, ideas, and actions; it charts this story across the range of American history, from the Revolution to our own era; and it opens up the transnational and global dimensions of American anti-imperialism.