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Government in Old Oyo Empire. Africanus Publishers, 1985.

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Babayemi, S. O. Topics on Oyo history. Lichfield Nigeria, 1991.

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Sex and the empire that is no more: Gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion. University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

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Matory, James Lorand. Sex and the empire that is no more: Gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion. Berghahn Books, 2004.

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Leye, Tunde. Afonja - The Rise (Oyo Empire Histories) (Volume 1). TLSPLACE MEDIA, 2018.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YORUBA RACE 3: How Race Mixing destroyed The Oyo Empire. THE 199 PUBLISHING PALACE, 2013.

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Robin, Law, ed. The number Seven Contemporary source material for the history of the Old Oyo Empire, 1627-1824. Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1992.

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ON IJESA RACIAL PURITY. The 199 Publishing Palace, 2009.

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Matory, J. Lorand. Sex and the Empire That is no More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. Berghahn Books, 2005.

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The Oyo Empire C1600-1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Modern Revivals in History). Ashgate Publishing, 1991.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YORUBA RACE 2: 10,000BC-1960AD. THE 199 PUBLISHING PALACE, 2011.

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Atwal, Priya. Royals and Rebels. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197548318.001.0001.

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In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore the queens and princes to the story of this empire’s spectacular rise and fall. She brings to life a self-made ruling family, inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but eventually succumbing
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Barducci, Marco. Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754589.003.0008.

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Chapter 7 aims to demonstrate that Grotius provided the English with justification for ‘Empire’ and colonization with a framework of juridical concepts and moral rights thereby supporting free trade, war, the establishment of commercial treaties and monopolies, and the possession of uncultivated lands both in European and extra-European territories. The chapter investigates the influence of Grotius’ works on English discourses relating to the conquest of and settlement in extra-European and European territories from the Virginia Company to Locke; the related dispute between the promoters of th
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Conway, Stephen. Britannia's Auxiliaries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808701.001.0001.

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This book provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many different European inputs—financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in different British imperial sites as soldiers, settlers, scientists, sailors, clergymen, merchants, and technical experts. They also sustained the empire from without—through their financial investments, their consumption of British imperial goods, their supply of European products, and by aiding British im
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Faust, Avraham. The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841630.001.0001.

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The Neo-Assyrian empire—the first large empire of the ancient world—had attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of the nineteenth century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best-known region in the world, and its history is also described in a plethora of texts, including the Hebrew Bible. Using a bottom-up approach, this book utilizes this unparalleled information to reconstruct the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest of the region, and how it impacted the diverse political units an
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Conway, Stephen. British Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808701.003.0007.

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This chapter pursues further the theme of British direction. It argues that, despite the involvement of other Europeans, the empire remained essentially British. After having considered the case for Europeanization, it goes on to show that many of those foreigners who became involved in or with the empire were at least partially Anglicized by the experience. Large numbers of foreign settlers, scientists, and technical experts learned English for public purposes, adapted to British norms, and consumed British goods, even if they continued to use their native language in their family lives. The
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Barrett, Caitlín Eilís. Domesticating Empire. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190641351.001.0001.

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This book is the first contextually oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery from Roman households. The author uses case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: domestic gardens. Through paintings and mosaics depicting the Nile, canals that turned the garden itself into a model “Nile,” and statuary depicting Egyptian gods, animals, and individuals, many gardens in Pompeii confronted ancient visitors with images of (a Roman vision of) Egypt. Simultaneously far away and familiar, these imagin
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Heere, Cees. Empire Ascendant. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837398.001.0001.

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In 1902, the British government entered into a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to global prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan from foreign rivals, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions. On the one hand, Anglo-Japanese alliance legitimized Japan’s participation in great-power diplomacy, and worked to counteract racist notions of a ‘yellow per
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Velmet, Aro. Pasteur's Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072827.001.0001.

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In the 1890s, the Pasteur Institute established a network of laboratories that stretched across France’s empire, from Indochina to West Africa. Quickly, researchers at these laboratories became central to France’s colonial project, helping officials monopolize industries, develop public health codes, establish disease containment measures, and arbitrate political conflicts around questions of labor rights, public works, and free association. Pasteur’s Empire shows how the scientific prestige of the Pasteur Institute came to depend on its colonial laboratories and how, conversely, the institute
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Dufallo, Basil. Disorienting Empire. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197571781.001.0001.

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Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry’s recurring interest in characters who become lost. The book explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome’s empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, the book argues, to imagine the ever-widening spaces of Roman power as a place where one could become disoriented, both in terms of geographical wandering and in a more abstract sense connected with identity and identification, especially as it concerned gender and sexuality. Plautus, Te
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Czajkowski, Kimberley, Benedikt Eckhardt, and Meret Strothmann, eds. Law in the Roman Provinces. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844082.001.0001.

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The study of the Roman empire has changed dramatically in the last century. Emphasis is now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than focusing solely on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between periphery and centre are an intrinsic component in our picture of the empire’s function over and against the earlier, top-down model. But where does law fit in to this new, decentralized picture of empire? This volume brings together internationally renowned scholars from legal and historical backgrounds to study the operation of law in eac
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Barnard, John Levi. Empire of Ruin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.001.0001.

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This book traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classical tradition to the projects of exceptionalist historiography and cultural white supremacy in the United States. This appropriative method has typically figured the United States as the inheritor of the best traditions of classical antiquity and thus as the standard bearer for the idea of civilization. Where dominant narratives—articulated through political speeches and editorials, poetry and the visual arts, and the
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Conway, Stephen. Inside the Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808701.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the different ways in which continental Europeans worked within the British Empire between about 1740 and 1800. It draws on a wide range of sources to piece together the picture, from official records to private letters, diaries, wills, inventories, and account-books. Foreign Europeans made an appearance in the empire in a variety of guises—as cartographers, scientists, technical experts, clergymen, merchants, sailors, and, perhaps most notably, in numerical terms at least, as settlers and soldiers. Some attempt is made to assess the significance of their contributions, a
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Conway, Stephen. Outside the Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808701.003.0003.

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This chapter considers the part played by continental Europeans in sustaining the empire from without, a role that was less conspicuous than internal involvement but nevertheless helped to support British imperial activity. Here we consider other Europeans as investors; as consumers of British imperial products; as suppliers of goods to British imperial sites; and as facilitators of the British presence across the globe, who from outside the empire provided stopping off places on voyages to imperial destinations and channels for the movement of British personnel and communication with the home
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Lewis, David M. The Persian Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198769941.003.0013.

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This chapter explores the role of slavery in several regions of the Persian Empire. The first section looks at elite estates in Anatolia, in particular examining the estate of Asidates discussed in Xenophon’s Anabasis (7.8.7–22), and shows that slave labour likely played a prominent role in their cultivation. The second section examines the role of slavery in the estates in Egypt of the Persian satrap Aršama, which presents a similar picture. The third section analyses the so-called ‘royal economy’ of Fars, known from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, and argues that a significant componen
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Cullen, Christopher. The astronomical empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733119.003.0002.

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This chapter begins by sketching the historical and cultural foundations of the role played by astronomy in the self-presentation of the early imperial Chinese state, principally through its claim to have the right to structure the time of its subjects by issuing a luni-solar calendar. This claim was presented as fulfilling a need on the part of the population; we discuss how far this claim was an accurate perception of the power relations involved. There follows a preliminary account of the main components of such a calendar, and of how they formed an integrated whole. Finally there is an int
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George, Alain. Paradise or Empire? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498931.003.0002.

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This essay revolves around a paradox of Umayyad art: the tendency for the same decorative schemes to yield apparently contradictory, yet internally coherent interpretations, mostly to do with paradise or empire. Through a discussion of the Dome of the Rock, the Great Mosque of Damascus, and two key Umayyad Qurʾan manuscripts, it investigates whether this ambiguity should in fact be understood as a consciously crafted polysemy. This reflection is set within a broader cultural context that involves, first of all, the inherent ambiguity of the Qurʾan as a text and related literary values; second,
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Worthington, Ian. Athens After Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633981.001.0001.

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When we think of ancient Athens, the image invariably coming to mind is of the Classical city, with monuments beautifying everywhere; the Agora swarming with people conducting business and discussing political affairs; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, with life anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy. But in 338 that forever changed when Philip II of Macedonia defeated a Greek army at Chaeronea to impose Macedonian hegemony over Greece. The Greeks then remained under Macedonian rule until the new power of the Mediterranean world, Rome, annexed Mac
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Frampton, Stephanie Ann. Empire of Letters. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190915407.001.0001.

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Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE–15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and book history) and uniting close readings of major authors with the careful analysis of the physical forms inhabited by ancient texts (papyrus bookrol
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Lee, Alexander. Humanism and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.001.0001.

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For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly ‘civic’ in outlook. Often serving in communal government, fourteenth-century humanists like Albertino Mussato and Coluccio Salutati are said to have derived from their reading of the Latin classics a rhetoric of republican liberty that was opposed to the ‘tyranny’ of neighbouring signori and of the German emperors. In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Lee challenges this long-held belief. From the death of Frederick II in 1250 to the failure of Rupert of the Palatinate’s ill-fated expedition in 1402, Lee
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Lee, Alexander. An Elective Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0008.

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This chapter explores how the humanists’ dualism affected their understanding of the Empire’s constitutional disposition. Setting the humanists’ views in the context of contemporary struggles over the sources and nature of the emperor’s authority, it will demonstrate that—despite a flirtation with Roman popular sovereignty on at least two separate occasions, and a residual uncertainty about the significance of papal coronations—they were broadly willing to view the electoral college as the ultimate source of imperial authority. But though they followed—and sometimes even anticipated—their coev
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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.001.0001.

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European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil. They established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies. Settlers introdu
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Horiguchi, Noriko J. The Devouring Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190240400.003.0014.

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This chapter studies the impact of war, empire, and gender identity in shaping food values via the depictions of food and hunger in the works of famed novelist and poet Hayashi Fumiko (1903–1951). It argues that food and the act of eating serve as metaphors for the colonial and imperial relationships between Japan, its occupied territories, and its own occupation by US forces. In addition, Hayashi's attitudes toward national and imperial identity shift between her works. For instance, in Diary of a Vagabond (1929), the hungry heroine defies and critiques normative gender roles and middle-class
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Orvell, Miles. Empire of Ruins. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491604.001.0001.

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Empire of Ruins explores the meaning of ruins in American culture, from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, arguing that photographs have been the chief means by which the significance of ruins has been created in American culture. The book traces a historical argument that begins in the nineteenth century, when Americans yearned for the ruins of Europe, then moves to the discovery of Native American ruins in the Southwest. Later chapters explore the visualization of inner city ruins, abandoned factories, and shopping malls, and the “creative destruction” of buildings in or
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Klinger, William, and Denis Kuljis. Tito's Secret Empire. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197572429.001.0001.

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This groundbreaking biography of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia presents many startling new revelations, among them his role as an international revolutionary leader and his relationship with Winston Churchill. It highlights his early years as a Comintern operative, the context for his later politics as a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The authors argue that in the 1940s, between the dissolution of the Comintern and the rise of NAM, Tito's influence and ambition were far wider than has been understood, extending to Italy, France, Greece and Spain via the international communist networks
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Hardy, Duncan. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827252.003.0014.

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It is clear from the comparative study of Upper German evidence undertaken in this book that multilateral associations were ubiquitous in the Holy Roman Empire in the period 1346–1521, and that they structured the interactions of all the diverse political actors within it. Indeed, inhabitants of the late medieval Empire used an ‘associative’ language of membership and mutual assistance, and the multilateral metaphor of the Quaternion (a symbolic amalgam of political actors of various statuses), when attempting to apprehend and articulate the structure and function of their polity. Modern unita
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Sandler, Willeke. Empire in the Heimat. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697907.001.0001.

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With the end of the First World War, Germany became a “postcolonial” power. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 transformed Germany’s overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific into League of Nations Mandates, administered by other powers. Yet a number of Germans rejected this “postcolonial” status, arguing instead that Germany was simply an interrupted colonial power and would soon reclaim these territories. With the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, irredentism seemed once again on the agenda, and these colonialist advocates actively and loudly promoted their colonial cause in the Third Reich. Ex
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Gibson, Roy K. Man of High Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199948192.001.0001.

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Pliny the Younger (c. 60–112 CE)—senator and consul in the Rome of Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, early ‘persecutor’ of Christians on the Black Sea—remains the best documented Roman individual, other than emperors, between Cicero and Augustine. Standard biographical approaches rarely suit him. But no Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales in which he lived, including Comum, Umbria and Rome. What is Pliny’s attachment or rel
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Yavuz, M. Hakan. Nostalgia for the Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512289.001.0001.

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This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman past have been transformed in Turkish society along with reactions from the outside world. This Ottoman past, as remembered now, is grounded in contemporary conservative Islamic values. Thus, the connection between memories of the Ottoman past and these values defines Turkey’s new identity. This new expression of memory por
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Lee, Alexander. Communes, Signori, and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0002.

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In the sixth canto of the Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri lamented the pitiable condition of Italy. Though once the donna di provincie, it was now the ‘dwelling place of sorrow’. Bereft of peace, its cities were wracked by constant strife. Attributing this to the absence of imperial governance, he called on Albert of Habsburg to right Italy’s woes with all haste. As this chapter shows, the earliest humanists embraced the imperial cause for much the same reasons. Although aware of the condition of the regnum Italicum, they were concerned primarily with the affairs of individual cities, and used the
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Lee, Alexander. History, Providence, and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0003.

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A few years after the humanist dream of a revivified Empire had put down roots in Padua, a parallel strain of imperialist thought was germinating in Verona. There in the shadow of the cathedral library, a small group of like-minded figures were attempting to revive classical culture more through the study of history and philology than through stylistic imitation. Like their Paduan contemporaries, they were deeply troubled by the condition of their times, and lamented the emergence of factionalism and tyranny. They, too, longed for peace and liberty, and saw the Empire as their best hope. But a
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Lee, Alexander. Italy, Rome, and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0004.

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The middle decades of the fourteenth century saw a change in the nature of the humanists’ enthusiasm for Empire. Often closely associated with the papal court, either as civic administrators in Rome, or as benefice holders or rhetoricians in Provence, they appealed to imperial authority out of a concern for the ‘Italic world’. This depended above all on the restoration of Rome. Only when the Eternal City had been returned to its ancient glory would Italy know peace and liberty; and it was hence upon the emergence of a truly ‘Roman’ emperor that the humanists now pinned their hopes. At times, t
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Lee, Alexander. The Twilight of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0005.

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Following Charles IV’s second Italian expedition, a new conception of Empire began to emerge. In place of the Petrarchan vision of the emperor as an agent of ‘Italic peace’, humanists in Florence, Padua, and Milan developed a vision of Empire similar to that voiced at the beginning of the century. Anxious to defend the liberty of their own city or commune against the threat of ‘tyranny’, they appealed to imperial authority for protection. But rather than simply reproduce earlier patterns of thought, they based their imperialism on a fuller—and more dynamic—appreciation of Dante’s political tho
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Lee, Alexander. The Bounds of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.003.0006.

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Scholars have long believed that ‘medieval’ universalism was supplanted by ‘Italian’ nationalism over the course of the fourteenth century. As this chapter demonstrates, however, nothing could be further from the truth. Although the humanists were often more concerned with the fate of Italy, or of individual cities, than of mankind as a whole, they did not waver in their belief that the Holy Roman Empire enjoyed universal dominion. Only at the very end of the Visconti Wars, when the Empire was seen to threaten the peace and liberty of the peninsula did ‘Italianness’ at last begin to come to th
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Manz, Stefan, and Panikos Panayi. Enemies in the Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850151.001.0001.

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During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and classified as ‘enemy aliens’. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men and some women experienced the most drastic step of enemy alien control, namely internment behind barbed wire,
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Hasan, Zoya, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Vidhu Verma, eds. The Empire of Disgust. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199487837.001.0001.

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All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust: people of a certain group, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the ‘clean’ and ‘fully human’ majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from the United States and India present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that
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Lieven, Anatol. West Asia Since 1900. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673604.003.0002.

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The history of West Asia over the past century has been defined by the collapse of three great empires. Contemporary history of the region is being defined by the decay of a fourth, informal empire —the USA — and the appearance of a new local power, the Islamic State, which is radically hostile to the US hegemony, local regimes and the very existence of the states of the region. These ruins of empire have been preceded, accompanied, and, to a considerable extent, caused by the decay of the civilizational ideologies, which had legitimized imperial rule. While internal culture, social and econom
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Clarke, Katherine. Shaping the Geography of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820437.001.0001.

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This is a book about the multiple worlds that Herodotus creates in his narrative. The constructed landscape in Herodotus’ work incorporates his literary representation of the natural world from the broadest scope of continents right down to the location of specific episodes. His ‘charging’ of those settings through mythological associations and spatial parallels adds further depth and resonance. The physical world of the Histories is in turn altered by characters in the narrative whose interactions with the natural world form part of Herodotus’ inquiry, and add another dimension to the meaning
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Webster, Wendy. The Empire Comes to Britain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735762.003.0004.

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This chapter looks at the many people who arrived in Britain from the British Empire—some to serve in the armed forces, others as war workers and wartime propagandists working at the BBC and in British cinema. Mixing between imperial allies produced many close friendships and camaraderie. The British media promoted a vision of an imperial community of allies. But wartime propaganda was potentially undermined by evidence of the practice of colour bars—in the empire and in Britain—and of tensions and antagonisms between imperial allies. Disruption of a publicly disseminated vision of a united em
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Ayoub, Samy A. Law, Empire, and the Sultan. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190092924.001.0001.

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This book is the first study of late Ḥanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Ḥanafī legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Ḥanafī jurists (al-mutaʾakhkhirūn). By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing “late Ḥanafism” as a framework of analysis, this study demonstrates that late Ḥanafī jurists assigned probative value and authority to the orders and edicts of the Ottoman sultan. This authority is reflected in
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