Sunday, October 10, 2010

Preview

Coming in November later this month:

Rhetorics of empire

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to it. Is this connected in any way to Spurr's work?
N

LFC said...

N,
No; I don't think I'm familiar with Spurr. Want to give me a cite or two?
Or I can look Spurr up myself, of course.

p.s. The planned post will draw mainly (though not exclusively) on one aspect of Mazower's No Enchanted Palace. But I don't want to give too much away, lest the thousands (cough) of this blog's devoted followers protest. :-)

LFC said...

OK, just looked up Spurr's The Rhetoric of Empire. Thanks

hank_F_M said...
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hank_F_M said...

LFC

Looking forward to it.

You saw Dan Nixon’s article? One of the more useful and commonsense discussions I have seen on the subject.

LFC said...

Hank,
To save me the time of tracking the citation down, which Dan Nexon article are you referring to?

LFC said...

If you mean Nexon's co-authored Am. Pol. Sci. Review article of a few years ago ("What's at stake in the American empire debate?"), I'm familiar with that one. If you mean a more recent article, I'd like the cite. Thanks.

hank_F_M said...

LFC

click here

LFC said...

Apart from the fact that I erroneously added a question mark to their title, that is the Nexon/Wright 2007 article.

Since you like their approach, perhaps we can have a discussion of it some time. It won't come up in the previewed post, but maybe I will do one on it after that. (I have more mixed feelings about the Nexon/Wright article than you do.)

LFC said...

In my view one of the problems with the Nexon/Wright approach is that they don't -- or, more precisely, they can't, given their assumptions -- see the end of colonialism as a major event in modern int'l history. Because their focus is on ideal-typical imperial "dynamics" and "structures," and b/c such "dynamics" can be found in both formal and informal "imperial orders," the divide between the colonial and post-colonial world is relegated to the margins. (This would have to be the subject of a longer discussion.)

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to your upcoming post. Glad you found the Spurr cite.
N