Description
Book SynopsisThe book examines how different imperial models of diplomacy, administration, economics, and cultural and religious policies were challenged or, on the contrary, defended during and after the collapse of the Empires that promoted them. It provides an overview from multiple perspectives of the imperial phenomenon in all its dimensions, and the studies published in this volume address broad chronological segments and geographical areas relevant to the imperial idea.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Ubique Victor. Triumphus, Christianity and the Ritualization of ImperialContinuity
The "Clash" of Empires: The Habsburgs, the Ottomans, Safavid Persia and the Anti-Ottoman Projects in a Diplomatic Episode of 1547
Beyond the Ottoman Empire – Past’s Hegemonies and Rising Powers; Venice and Habsburgs in the 16th Century
The Empire That Never Was: Ali Kemal’s Fetret (Interregnum) and the Vision of a Westernised Ottoman Empire
Foreigners and Foreign Menace (as Perceived) in Romanian Society During First World War. A Few Considerations
"My Dear Cousin": The Diplomacy of the Romanian Royal House at the Imperial Courts in the Eve of World War One
Imperial Nostalgia and Contestation: N. Iorga and the Paradoxes of a Romanian Nationalist
A Book as Wedding Gift: Nicolae Iorga, the 1921 Romanian-Greek Royal Weddings, and the Paths of Knowledge Exchange
Spain after the Empire. Between Nostalgia and the Future
Erroneous Calculations on the Ruins of Empires: The Failure of the Proportional Representation Method in Central and Southern Europe in the 1920s
Borderland’s Country: South Dobruja. Imperial Nostalgias on the Edge of the National Ideal (1913–1940)
From Allies to the Undesirable: The Refuge of the Crimean Tatars to Romania During World War Two
The End of a Communist Imperial Illusion. The First Visit of Pope John Paul II in Poland. 1979
The Ghost of Imperialism. The Anti-Western Propaganda in the Last Years of Ceaușescu’s Regime
Withdrawal of the Soviet Empire: System Crisis or International Crisis?
Communist/Post-Communist Official Remembrance of the Local Involvement in the Holocaust: A Comparison Between Poland and Romania
