(Dis)connecting Empires

Z. Biedermann
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Chapter 1 drafts a roadmap for a critical connected history of empires in the early modern world. It asks where exactly ‘connections’ sit with regard to the global and the local. For an understanding of global connections, local contexts remain key. There, we can seek out the ‘cultural history of the political’ and examine the role played by communication and translation. The notion that unfolding European-Asia dialogues can be sliced up into rigid ‘phases’ (e.g. ‘commerce’ to ‘conquest’) is reductive. At the heart of all interactions is the possibility of violence. Violence is not a monopoly of states in the modern sense of the word, but of polities that entertain a complex relationship with space, through layered suzerainties translatable across Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. The ‘Imperial Theme’ identified by Frances Yates calls to be made to work across the globe. It could foment the formulation of a general theory of the imperial in the early modern world.
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(Dis)连接帝国
第一章为早期现代世界的帝国历史绘制了一个重要的路线图。它询问“连接”究竟位于全球和本地的哪个位置。为了理解全球联系,本地环境仍然是关键。在那里,我们可以寻找“政治的文化史”,并审视传播和翻译所起的作用。展开欧亚对话可以被分割成僵化的“阶段”(例如,从“商业”到“征服”),这种观念是简化的。所有互动的核心都是暴力的可能性。暴力并不是现代意义上国家的垄断,而是与空间有着复杂关系的政治的垄断,通过在欧亚大陆、非洲和美洲可翻译的分层宗主国。弗朗西斯·耶茨提出的“帝国主题”需要在全球范围内发挥作用。它可以促进近代早期帝国的一般理论的形成。
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