Empire (Narratives of Empire)

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This book does offer a sense of how politics work in city such as Washington where it seems like most actions have some element of the political that comes into play. Vidal's later political novels follow some of these themes, but also often show us how life is much different for the elites of the times as compared to the people who the politicians aim to turn into supporters. The US is maneuvered into the Second World War by President Roosevelt, whose successors pursue a fatal Cold War policy of military and economic domination just as the nation has become the center of western art and culture. Frank, Alison F. 2005. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Philliou, Christine M. 2011. Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolutions. Berkeley: University of California Press. 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.Mills, Amy. 2011. The Ottoman Legacy: Urban Geographies, National Imaginaries, and Global Discourses of Tolerance. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 31 (1): 183–195. Kriegleder, Wynfrid, Andrea Seidler, and Jozef Tancer, eds. 2019. Kulturelle Zirkulation im Habsburgerreich: Der Kommunikationsraum Wien. Vienna: Praesens. Reynolds, Michael A. 2011. Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nascido em 1925, em Nova Iorque, estudou na Academia de Phillips Exeter (Estado de New Hampshire). O seu primeiro romance, Williwaw (1946), era uma história da guerra claramente influenciada pelo estilo de Hemingway. Embora grande parte da sua obra tenha a ver com o século XX americano, Vidal debruçou-se várias vezes sobre épocas recuadas, como, por exemplo, em A Search for the King (1950), Juliano (1964) e Creation (1981).

The contributions to this important volume offer a wealth of new insights into ideologies and policies that the Habsburg and Ottoman empires developed as they faced the challenge of ethnolinguistic nationalisms during the long nineteenth century. The authors also reveal how local actors engaged with Habsburg dynastic patriotism and Ottomanism, and transformed them to fit their own agendas.”— Rok Stergar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Wigen, Einar. 2013. Ottoman Concepts of Empire. Contributions to the History of Concepts 8 (1): 44–66. Burton, Antoinette, ed. 2003. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking With and Through the Nation. Durham and London: Duke University Press. I liked the novel and the way the next generation of these powerful families each had to find their own way of coping with the expectations of their parents. We get to know Enid and Peter, the daughter and son of Blaise Sanford, and Diana, the daughter of Senator Day, and their various trials as they attempt to make sense of Washington and it's fishbowl atmosphere. We also see the challenges as Senator Day and Clay Overbury both aspire to power and cross swords as the younger Overbury seeks to gain his own platform. Emrence, Cem. 2011. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State. London: I B Tauris. Unlike the Roth novel, this is not exactly the stuff of emotional horror; still, the read is a swift one, bolstered by Vidal's elegant writing. Gore is more of a master than Roth when it comes to turning a phrase.

Münkler, Herfried, and Eva Marlene Hausteiner, eds. 2012. Die Legitimation von Imperien: Strategien und Motive im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt and New York: Campus. Late eighteenth-century enlightened reform movement in the Habsburg Empire, named after emperor Joseph II, aimed at, among other things, strengthening state outreach Magyarisation: But, before this novel was published the American public's mistrust was simply that, mistrust. The level of corruption and at the highest levels of our government might have been discussed within the Washington social circle and in New York, but the public as a whole had very little knowledge.Aytekin, E. Attila. 2012. Peasant Protest in the Late Ottoman Empire: Moral Economy, Revolt, and the Tanzimat Reforms. IRSH 57: 191–227. Fivush, Robyn, Tilman Habermas, Theodore E.A. Waters, and Widaad Zaman. 2011. The Making of Autobiographical Memory: Intersections of Culture, Narratives and Identity. International Journal of Psychology 46 (5): 321–345.