Sökning: "empire"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 93 avhandlingar innehållade ordet empire.

1. 16. Time-space Appropriation in the Inka Empire : A Study of Imperial Metabolism

   Författare :RAGNHEIDUR BOGADÓTTIR; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inka Empire; time-space appropriation; ecologically unequal exchange; historical political ecology; human ecology; imperial metabolism; economic anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes some aspects of the appropriation of labor time and natural space in the Inka Empire (ca. AD 1400 – 1532) in order to illuminate the cultural organization of Inka imperial metabolism. LÄS MER

3. 17. "...achieved nothing worthy of memory" : Coinage and authority in the Roman empire c. AD 260-295

   Författare :Ragnar Hedlund; Mats Cullhed; Ursula Kampmann; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Roman empire; soldier-emperor; crisis; propaganda; language of images; authority; legitimacy; communication; coinage; coin-imagery; war; military; court; Rome; regionalization; consecration; dynasty; divine sanction; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how the Roman emperors c. AD. 260–295 attempt at maintaining their power-bases through legitimation of their claims to power, with reference to various potentially powerful groups of society, such as the military, the inhabitants of the provinces and the senate in Rome. LÄS MER

4. 18. Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective

   Författare :Hans Leander; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Gospel of Mark; postcolonial criticism; discourse theory; ideological criticism; historic-critical paradigm; European colonialism; early Christian identity; Roman Empire; Edward Said; Homi Bhabha; Gayatri Spivak; mimicry; hybridity; catachresis.;

   Sammanfattning : Generally regarded as the first written gospel, Mark probably began circulating in this form during the 70s C.E, the hey-days of Flavian Rome. Reading Mark as a representation of a collective identity position, this dissertation primarily studies the various ways in which it related to Roman imperial discourse. LÄS MER

5. 19. Empire and identity. Biographies of Austrian identity in an age of imperial dissolution

   Författare :Fredrik Lindström; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Friedrich Naumann; Mitteleuropa; Karl Renner; Leopold von Andrian; Heinrich Friedjung; Josef Redlich; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Ernest von Koerber; biography; Habsburg empire; Austrian identity; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the problem of Austrian identity in the late Habsburg empire. The investigation departs from an understanding of this problem as situated in the juncture between the historical Austrian imperial experience and the process of modern Austrian identity formation. LÄS MER

7. 20. The Voice of a Waning Empire : Selected Latin Poetry of Magnus Rönnow from the Great Northern War. Edited, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

   Författare :Elena Dahlberg; Hans Helander; Outi Merisalo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Magnus Rönnow; the Great Northern War; Charles XII; Peter I of Russia; Frederick IV of Denmark; propaganda literature; Neo-Latin; occasional poetry; Baroque style; allegory; emblematics; medals; Augustan poetry; Horace; Latin; Latin;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis contains selected Latin poetry by the Swedish poet Magnus Rönnow (1665‒1735), composed during the Great Northern War. The Carolean age (1654–1718) was the hey-day of Latin literature, eloquence and poetry in Sweden. Rönnow was one of the last Latin poets in this tradition, and indeed one of the most outstanding. LÄS MER