Conceiving the Empire
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-921464-8 (ISBN)
The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of `empire' and the enduring influence of the `imperial' order.
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler is Professor of Classics at Dresden University. Achim Mittag is Professor of Chinese Studies at Tübingen University.
I. THE BIRTH OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER; A. THE IDEA OF 'EMPIRE': ITS GENESIS BEFORE AND ITS UNFOLDING AFTER THE EMERGENCE OF THE EMPIRE; B. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGING EMPIRE; II.THE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED EMPIRE; A. IMPERIAL GRANDEUR AND HISTORIOGRAPHY A LA GRANDE; B.THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF THE UNIFIED WORLD: IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; C. SELF-IMAGE AND THE FORMATION OF IMPERIAL RHETORICS; D. THE POWER OF IMAGES: IMPERIAL ORDER AND IMPERIAL AURA AS REPRESENTED IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE; III. THE WANING OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER; A. HISTORY-WRITING IN THE FACE OF CRISIS; B. WHEN THE IMPERIAL ORDER DISINTEGRATES: RETHINKING THE 'EMPIRE' UNDER RELIGIOUS AUSPICES
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.11.2008 |
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Zusatzinfo | 35 in-text illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 161 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 922 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-921464-6 / 0199214646 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-921464-8 / 9780199214648 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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