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 o...

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.