Empire (Narratives of Empire)

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Lindström, Fredrik. 2008. Empire and Identity: Biographies of the Austrian State Problem in the Late Habsburg Empire. Central European Studies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together, they explore both Burr's past - and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. They also knew his patrician manner, transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage; his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation (through marriage) to Jacqueline Kennedy. Swedish Academy. 2006. Orhan Pamuk—Facts. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2006/pamuk/lecture/. 10 December 2019. But while the Parvenu Olympics was tedious, the rest of the novel and Vidal's brilliant prose are a sheer pleasure to read. His characters come to life and the dialogue of the main players from President Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey and William Randolph Hearst are all superbly written.

Senhor de um estilo exuberante, multifacetado e sempre surpreendente, publicou, em 1995, a autobiografia Palimpsest: A Memoir. As obras 'O Instituto Smithsonian' e 'A Idade do Ouro' encontram-se traduzidas em português. This is a wonderful collection of studies that illuminates the Habsburg and Ottoman cases in new ways by placing them in dialogue with each other,showing multiple ways that we can close the breach between the two historiographies.Despite all of their differences – of language, religion, and political structure – the histories of both empires benefit from being seen through the lens of the other. Specialists in both empires will have epiphanies about their own and the other empire in reading the contributions herein. This will surely be a generative work for a field still in its infancy.” Yilmaz. 2006. Ottomanism vs. Kemalism: Collective Memory and Cultural Pluralism in 1990s Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies 42 (4): 587–602. Cole, Laurence, and Daniel L. Unowsky. 2007. The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, 143–156. New York: Berghahn Books.

They fell into distinct social and historical camps. Alongside his social, his best known historical include Julian, Burr, and Lincoln. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics as the first major feature of unambiguous homosexuality. David-Fox, Michael, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin. 2006. The Imperial Turn. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7 (4): 705–712. Arabic: ‘upswing’): movement promoting an intellectual and cultural revival in the late nineteenth century Arab world Neo-Ottomanism: Kraus, Wolfgang. 2000. Das erzählte Selbst. Die narrative Konstruktion von Identität in der Spätmoderne. Herbolzheim: Centaurus.A novel of pre-war politics and the dawn of the American Empire. Three men, the son of a newspaper tycoon, an aging but hale senator and the senator's poor but ambitious aide cross from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill to the drawing rooms of power in the surrounding city. Titanic events in the world at large dwarf them, but they are at the heart of the political and cultural elite and the poison and futility of politics is matched by their squalid family dealings.

Varlık, Nükhet. 2016. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: the Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600. New York: Cambridge University Press. Until recently, the idea of historical fiction as a genre didn't hold much appeal for me. I can't say why exactly - the blend of historical figures with made-up peripheral people just didn't excite me that much. Luke, Christina. 2018. Heritage Interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism. Journal of Social Archaeology 18 (2): 234–257. Neo-Ottomanism, Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Turkish Politics. In Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans, ed. Raymond Detrez and Barbara Segaert. Brussels and Vienna: Peter Lang. Furlanetto, Elena. 2017. Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-imperial Turkey. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

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Distressed by the rise of national socialism in Germany, the French poet Paul Claudel looked at the multinational nature of the Austro-Hungarian empire as a possible remedy for the dangers of nationalism. There is no doubt that the Ottoman experience too would have offered him much food for thought. By looking comparatively at both the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, this volume makes an insightful contribution to the debates on (post-)imperial identities and cultures between centres and peripheries. Engaging with the literary heritage of the two empires, the book brings to the fore the intrinsic relation between literary and political narratives.” That understanding of the Second World War is actually profoundly nationalist—empire is written out. I can’t agree that there’s been a stream of British propaganda celebrating the Empire right through the Queen’s reign. We do have a post-Brexit change, but I think one can exaggerate the import of empire in that rhetoric. There’s a lot of baiting the left here, and the left has risen to this. In many ways, empire is a distraction from the realities of British power, the nature of the British élite. Anti-imperialism has been the standard liberal critique of British power. I think it just goes nowhere near far enough, and, in the recent past, rather misses the point. Frank, Alison F. 2005. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Vidal is very good at creating large ensembles of characters and showing their interactions, while showing how the draw of power and sex pushes people in some surprising directions. This novel was published in 1967, but has a more contemporary feel in the way that the characters act on their attractions to both men and women and sometimes threaten to cross moral boundaries.

Aytekin, E. Attila. 2012. Peasant Protest in the Late Ottoman Empire: Moral Economy, Revolt, and the Tanzimat Reforms. IRSH 57: 191–227. Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham. 2010. The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914. Berkeley: University of California Press. Zürcher, Erik-Jan. 2010. The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk’s Turkey. London: I. B. Tauris.I’m not saying Vidal might not have sympathized with the anti-empire argument, but this story is written from the perspective of hardcore realism with no time for soft-headed idealism. Wigen, Einar. 2013. Ottoman Concepts of Empire. Contributions to the History of Concepts 8 (1): 44–66. To discuss the political and social landscape today, and how Britain should wrestle with its past, I spoke by phone with two writers, David Edgerton and Nesrine Malik. Edgerton is a professor of history at King’s College London who has written a series of books and articles disputing the notion that Margaret Thatcher saved the United Kingdom from a prolonged period of postwar decline. Malik is a columnist at the Guardian, and the author of “ We Need New Stories,” which traces the angst over recent debates surrounding free speech. She wrote recently that the ascension of a new monarch offered the chance for a more unvarnished and honest appraisal of British history and society. The key point is the nature of current British politics, of British power and racism in the present. In the end, that’s got not very much to do with the monarchy or indeed with legacies of empire. We’re talking about new formations, new politics, new dangers. It’s too easy, too cozy, to believe that the problems of contemporary Britain can reside in a past that has not been exorcised.