The representation of external threats : : from the Middle Ages to the modern world / / Edited by Eberhard Crailsheim, Maria Dolores Elizalde.

• Author: Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde
• TeilnehmendeR: Crailsheim, Eberhard,; Elizalde Pérez-Grueso, María Dolores,; Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare 123.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (482 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction 1 / Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde -- 1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research 17 / 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 56 / Vladimir Belous -- 3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire 69 / Theresia Raum -- 4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama 88 / Marie Schreier -- 5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia 106 / Simon C. Kemper -- 6 The Enemy Within: 'Gypsies' as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century 131 / Stephan Steiner -- 7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia 155 / Alexandr Osipian -- 8 The 'Pale of Settlement': a Particular Form of Separation of the 'Own' and the 'Alien' in the Russian Empire 186 / Anna Abalian -- 9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914 205 / Federico Niglia -- 10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England 222 / Ionut Untea -- 11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch 'Great Assembly' (1651) 240 / Irena Kozmanová -- 12 Translatio Imperii: the 'Enmification' of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898) 265 / Rodrigo Escribano Roca -- 13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive 294 / Derek Kane O'Leary -- 14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats 319 / Pedro Ponte e Sousa -- 15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony 343 / Jean-Noël Sanchez -- 16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: the Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century 366 / María Dolores Elizalde -- 17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan 401 / David Manzano Cosano -- 18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty 419 / Srikanth Thaliyakkattil -- 19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain's Travel Writings in the 19th Century 438 / Qiong Yu -- Back Matter -- Index.