The Myth Of 1648
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The Myth of 1648
Author | : Benno Teschke |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781789605075 |
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Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Teschke, through this thorough and incisive critique, argues that this is not the case. Domestic 'social property relations' shaped international relations in continental Europe down to 1789 and even beyond. The dynastic monarchies that ruled during this time differed from their medieval predecessors in degree and form of personalization, but not in underlying dynamic. 1648, therefore, is a false caesura in the history of international relations. For real change we must wait until relatively recent times and the development of modern states and true capitalism. In effect, it's not until governments are run impersonally, with no function other than the exercise of its monopoly on violence, that modern international relations are born.
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author | : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781910634974 |
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This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
The Peace of Westphalia
Author | : Derek Croxton,Anuschka Tischer |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015053178003 |
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The peace of Westphalia constituted a watershed in early modern history. It guided a number of political, territorial, and legal decisions that determined the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire and the international landscape. This work provides an insight into the Peace of Westphalia.
Stories of Khmelnytsky
Author | : Amelia M. Glaser |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804794961 |
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In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.
The Myth of Development
Author | : Oswaldo de Rivero B. |
Publsiher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 1856499499 |
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In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations."--BOOK JACKET.
War and the World
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300082852 |
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An attempt to write a global history of warfare in the modern era. Jeremy Black, here presents a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose and experience of war over the last half millennium.
Peace Treaties and International Law in European History
Author | : Randall Lesaffer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781139453783 |
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In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. Important emphasis is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epochal Peace of Treaties of Westphalia of 1648 and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.
The Power of Language in the Making of International Law
Author | : Stephane Beaulac |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789047404873 |
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It is in the intellectual context of the new possibility of philosophy, and the great new challenge facing philosophy, that I place Stéphane Beaulac’s important book. His work takes advantage, in particular, of several of the hard-earned lessons of twentieth-century philosophy and social experience. From the Foreword.