The Representation of External Threats : From the Middle Ages to the Modern World

In The Representation of External Threats , Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats over three continents and four oceans, offering new perspectives on their development, social construction, and representation. Contents 5 List of Illustrations 9 Notes on Contributors 11 Introduction 17 Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde 17 Part 1 31 Conceptual Approaches 31 Chapter 1 33 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research 33 Eberhard Crailsheim 33 Chapter 2 72 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism 72 Vladimir Belous 72 Part 2 83 Threat Communication 83 Chapter 3 85 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire 85 Theresia Raum 85 Chapter 4 104 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama 104 Marie Schreier 104 Chapter 5 122 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: The Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia 122 Simon C. Kemper 122 Part 3 145 Representation of the Internal/External Other 145 Chapter 6 147 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century 147 Stephan Steiner 147 Chapter 7 171 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia 171 Alexandr Osipian 171 Chapter 8 202 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: A Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian Empire 202 Anna Abalian 202 Part 4 219 The Creation of Threats in the Old World 219 Chapter 9 221 Back to the Huns: The German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914 221 Federico Niglia 221 Chapter 10 238 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England 238 Ionut Untea 238 Chapter 11 256 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651) 256 Irena Kozmanová 256 Part 5 279 Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World 279 Chapter 12 281 Translatio Imperii: The ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, A Comparative View (1850-1898) 281 Rodrigo Escribano Roca 281 Chapter 13 310 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive 310 Derek Kane O’Leary 310 Chapter 14 335 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: The Role of External Threats 335 Pedro Ponte e Sousa 335 Part 6 357 Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World 357 Chapter 15 359 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony 359 Jean-Noël Sanchez 359 Chapter 16 382 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th century 382 María Dolores Elizalde 382 Chapter 17 417 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan 417 David Manzano Cosano 417 Part 7 433 Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters 433 Chapter 18 435 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty 435 Srikanth Thaliyakkattil 435 Chapter 19 454 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th Century 454 Qiong Yu 454 Index 475 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 In 'The Representation of External Threats', Eberhard Crailsheim and Maria 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.0Focussing 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.