Two major Jewish risings against Rome took place in the years following the destruction of Jerusalem - the first during Trajan's Parthian war, and the second, led by Bar Kokhba, under Hadrian's ...principate. The impact of these risings not only on Judaea, but also on Cyrene, Egypt, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, is shown by accounts in both ancient Jewish and non-Jewish literature. More recently discovered sources include letters and documents from fighters and refugees, and inscriptions attesting war and restoration. Historical evaluation has veered between regret for a pointless bloodbath and admiration for sustained resistance. William Horbury offers a new history of these risings, presenting a fresh review of sources and interpretations. He explores the period of Jewish war under Trajan and Hadrian not just as the end of an era, but also as a time of continuity in Jewish life and development in Jewish and Christian origins.
Reid examines Riel's religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada's search for a national identity. ...Reid's study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country's collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel's voice speaks to these issues.
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the ...throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led-the Jacobite Rising of 1745-was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire.Rebellion and Savageryexamines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an imperial scale.
Charles Edward gained support from the clans of the Scottish Highlands, communities that had long been derided as primitive. In 1745 the Jacobite Highlanders were denigrated both as rebels and as savages, and this double stigma helped provoke and legitimate the violence of the government's anti-Jacobite campaigns. Though the colonies stayed relatively peaceful in 1745, the rising inspired fear of a global conspiracy among Jacobites and other suspect groups, including North America's purported savages.
The defeat of the rising transformed the leader of the army, the Duke of Cumberland, into a popular hero on both sides of the Atlantic. With unprecedented support for the maintenance of peacetime forces, Cumberland deployed new garrisons in the Scottish Highlands and also in the Mediterranean and North America. In all these places his troops were engaged in similar missions: demanding loyalty from all local inhabitants and advancing the cause of British civilization. The recent crisis gave a sense of urgency to their efforts. Confident that "a free people cannot oppress," the leaders of the army became Britain's most powerful and uncompromising imperialists.
Geoffrey Plank argues that the events of 1745 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the British Empire by creating a new political interest in favor of aggressive imperialism, and also by sparking discussion of how the British should promote market-based economic relations in order to integrate indigenous peoples within their empire. The spread of these new political ideas was facilitated by a large-scale migration of people involved in the rising from Britain to the colonies, beginning with hundreds of prisoners seized on the field of battle and continuing in subsequent years to include thousands of men, women and children. Some of the migrants were former Jacobites and others had stood against the insurrection. The event affected all the British domains.
The year of 2018 is marked by a chronological coincidence that brings out the issue of uprisings to the very center of political and academic discussion. It is on this terrain that the memory of the ...50 years of May 1968, which could be already inscribed in a longue duree, finds the vivid and recent memory recalled in the five years of June 2013, whose repercussions are still uncertain and enigmatic. In this article, I argue that the various dimensions and the many "worlds" contained in the uprisings call for a relationship between aesthetics and politics that cannot be limited to one more vision of the cycle of revolts. On the contrary, the question is to understand how the points of view launched within the event could drag our perception and demand, not only new forms of thinking but, mainly, new modes of existing.
The year of 2018 is marked by a chronological coincidence that brings out the issue of uprisings to the very center of political and academic discussion. It is on this terrain that the memory of the ...50 years of May 1968, which could be already inscribed in a longue duree, finds the vivid and recent memory recalled in the five years of June 2013, whose repercussions are still uncertain and enigmatic. In this article, I argue that the various dimensions and the many "worlds" contained in the uprisings call for a relationship between aesthetics and politics that cannot be limited to one more vision of the cycle of revolts. On the contrary, the question is to understand how the points of view launched within the event could drag our perception and demand, not only new forms of thinking but, mainly, new modes of existing. Keywords: uprisings, image, aesthetics, politics. O ano de 2018 esta marcado por uma coincidencia cronologica que trouxe o tema dos levantes para o centro da discussao politica e academica. E nele que a memoria dos 50 anos do grande ciclo de Maio de 1968, ja inscrita em uma certa longa duracao, encontra a lembranca viva e recente dos 05 anos de Junho de 2013, cujas repercussoes sao ainda incertas e enigmaticas. Neste artigo, sustento que as varias dimensoes e os varios "mundos" contidos nos levantes reclamam uma relacao entre estetica e politica que nao pode ser limitada a mais uma visao sobre o ciclo de revoltas. Pelo contrario, trata-se de compreender como os proprios pontos de vistas lancados por dentro do acontecimento arrastam a nossa percepcao e reclamam, nao apenas novas formas de pensar, mas, principalmente, novos modos de existir. Palavras-chave: levantes, imagem, estetica, politica.
War of No Pity Herbert, Christopher
2021, 2007, 2021-07-13
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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months ...and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing, " Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.
Louis 'David' Riel Flanagan, Thomas
Louis 'David' Riel,
c1996, 19961031, 1996, 1996-10-31
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A spiritual biography that takes Louis Riel seriously as a religious figure. Flanagan tells the story of Riel's career as a millenarian prophet and would-be religious reformer. This new edition takes ...advantage of a wealth of new primary sources.
An innovative global history of the American Civil War, Reckoning with Rebellion compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and national conflicts that happened at nearly the ...same time-the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Polish Insurrection of 1863, and China's Taiping Rebellion. Aaron Sheehan-Dean identifies surprising new connections between these historical moments across three continents. Sheehan-Dean shows that insurgents around the globe often relied on irregular warfare and were labeled as criminals, mutineers, or rebels by the dominant powers. He traces commonalities between the United States, British, Russian, and Chinese empires, all large and ambitious states willing to use violence to maintain their authority. These powers were also able to control how these conflicts were described, affecting the way foreigners perceived them and whether they decided to intercede. While the stories of these conflicts are now told separately, Sheehan-Dean argues, the participants understood them in relation to each other. When Union officials condemned secession, they pointed to the violence unleashed by the Indian Rebellion. When Confederates denounced Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant, they did so by comparing him to Tsar Alexander II. Sheehan-Dean demonstrates that the causes and issues of the Civil War were also global problems, revealing the important paradigms at work in the age of nineteenth-century nation-building. A volume in the series Frontiers of the American South, edited by William A. Link
