Titlebook: War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830; Richard Bessel (Professor of Twentieth Century His Book 2010 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Aut

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Old Subjects, New Subjects and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Fédon’s Rebellion, Grenada,eenth centuries.. For intellectual historians like J. C. D. Clark, British subjecthood has been a question about authority and allegiance best answered with reference to sermons, legal treatises and other canonical works of political theology; for new imperial historians like Kathleen Wilson or Cath

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Old Subjects, New Subjects and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Fédon’s Rebellion, Grenada,eenth centuries.. For intellectual historians like J. C. D. Clark, British subjecthood has been a question about authority and allegiance best answered with reference to sermons, legal treatises and other canonical works of political theology; for new imperial historians like Kathleen Wilson or Cath

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The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identityer than a geographical one. The ‘European’ expansion and strategic concerns of the Russian Empire, and for that matter the Soviet Union, have always concerned both Russia’s rulers and her international rivals more than her Asiatic ambitions. The expansion within Europe in the Napoleonic period was s

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The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identityer than a geographical one. The ‘European’ expansion and strategic concerns of the Russian Empire, and for that matter the Soviet Union, have always concerned both Russia’s rulers and her international rivals more than her Asiatic ambitions. The expansion within Europe in the Napoleonic period was s

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War, Empire and the ‘Other’: Iranian-European Contacts in the ‘Napoleonic’ Erah Qajar, after ten years of war between the Tsarist and Qajar regimes, noted with surprise that the shah’s son and heir ‘Abbas Mirza displayed portraits of Tsar Alexander and Napoleon in his palace in Tabriz.. Granted that exchanges of portraits were a familiar diplomatic ritual in the period, this

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War, Empire and the ‘Other’: Iranian-European Contacts in the ‘Napoleonic’ Erah Qajar, after ten years of war between the Tsarist and Qajar regimes, noted with surprise that the shah’s son and heir ‘Abbas Mirza displayed portraits of Tsar Alexander and Napoleon in his palace in Tabriz.. Granted that exchanges of portraits were a familiar diplomatic ritual in the period, this

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Patriotism, Painting and the Portuguese Empire during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warsripped of his crown, or the one in which he can sleep restfully and with no apprehension that he will be disturbed?’, the Portuguese diplomat Luis da Cunha asked in 1736. In suggesting that the king of Portugal should move to Brazil and assume the title of the Emperor of the West, da Cunha anticipat

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Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprisinin farms of the region, taken the farmers prisoner and persuaded the labourers to join them. They planned to ‘first take a battery and then … write a letter to the Governor, to grant our freedom, and if that was refused we should fight ourselves free’.