The Representation of External Threats

From the Middle Ages to the Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39015-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

In The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories.
Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors.
Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, María Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanová, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O’Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noël Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Crailsheim, Eberhard

Elizalde, María Dolores

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde

Part 1

Conceptual Approaches

1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research

Eberhard Crailsheim

2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism

Vladimir Belous

Part 2: Threat Communication

3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire

Theresia Raum

4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama

Marie Schreier

5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia

Simon C. Kemper

Part 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other

6 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century

Stephan Steiner

7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia

Alexandr Osipian

8 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: a Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian Empire

Anna Abalian

Part 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World

9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914

Federico Niglia

10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England

Ionut Untea

11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651)

Irena Kozmanová

Part 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World

12 Translatio Imperii: the ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898)

Rodrigo Escribano Roca

13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive

Derek Kane O’Leary

14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats

Pedro Ponte e Sousa

Part 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World

15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony

Jean-Noël Sanchez

16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century

María Dolores Elizalde

17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan

David Manzano Cosano

Part 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters

18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty

Srikanth Thaliyakkattil

19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th Century

Qiong Yu

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eberhard Crailsheim, Ph.D. (2008), is Marie-Curie fellow (IF) at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is the author of The Spanish Connection (Böhlau 2016), and has published many articles on threats on the Philippines.
María Dolores Elizalde, Ph.D. (1988), is Scientific Researcher at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is specialized in international history and in colonial and postcolonial processes in Asia and the Pacific, with a particular focus on the Philippines.