Empire (Narratives of Empire)

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Ghosh, David. 2012. Another Set of Imperial Turns? The American Historical Review 117 (3): 772–793. Polt-Heinzl, Evelyne. 2015. Ringstraßenzeit und Wiener Moderne: Porträt einer literarischen Epoche des Übergangs. Wien: Sonderzahl. Singer, Jefferson A., Pavel S. Blagov, Meredith Steele Barry, and Kathryn M. Oost. 2012. Self-Defining Memories, Scripts, and the Life Story: Narrative Identity in Personality and Psychotherapy. Journal of Personality 81 (6): 569–582. Gingrich, Simone. 2011. Foreign Trade and Early Industrialisation in the Habsburg Monarchy and the United Kingdom: Two Extremes in Comparison. Ecological Economics 70: 1280–1288.

Burton, Antoinette, ed. 2003. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking With and Through the Nation. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Nós só deixamos as pessoas darem os seus votos para elas se sentirem necessárias. Mas quanto mais ampliamos, teoricamente, a democracia, mais ela fica sem gás. - Imitando Clarence King, Adams agora gostava de usar expressões de linguagem comum, acompanhadas de um aceno malicioso da cabeça, como se fosse um trabalhador irlandês de Boston. Abraham Lincoln, John Hay, John Nicolay, Elihu Washburne, Mary Todd Lincoln, William Seward, Salmon P. Chase, David Herold, Mary Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, Kate Chase, William Sprague I’m not saying Vidal might not have sympathized with the anti-empire argument, but this story is written from the perspective of hardcore realism with no time for soft-headed idealism. That aside, though, this is a novel that does turn on a variety of interactions. I imagine some of its contemporary effect had to do with its unapologetic glimpses of sexuality – with homosexuality included in a side-eye kind of way – but that hardly seems memorable. Instead (and why do I keep hedging every time I set out to say what’s effective in this?) we get a troubling family situation. Newspaper titan Blaise Sanford has a son and a daughter. Peter is disaffected enough by his father’s position that he starts a vaguely socialist magazine. Enid, happy to make a scene, marries a heartlessly ambitious young war hero (or is he?), Clay Overbury who angles to depose his political mentor James Burden Day so he can take the Senate seat for himself.If there is one thing that I take away from Gore Vidal's political treatises in the Narratives of Empire, it is that nothing ever changes. Despite being set during the period of the Second World War (the late 1930's through the early 1950's), and written/published in the mid 1960's, the scandals, intrigues, betrayals, and political maneuverings read as if they had been ripped from the modern day headlines. apparently politics has always been as corrupt and politicians as self serving as they are today. To quote the character Peter Sanford, " There was never a golden age. There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." A German-Austria (Deutschösterreich) is created out of the remaining (German-speaking) part of the Habsburg Empire. Various partition plans for the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk As each novel moves forward, often somewhat clumsily, it serves that greater purpose. This one, though, better-designed as it is, doesn’t yet have the awareness of the ambition of the series as a whole. It hints at the Burr connection, but it’s more a curiosity than the inciting fact. These people have lives of their own to live (in perhaps two-and-a-half dimensions), so the history they’re part of isn’t as upfront.

Members of President Abraham Lincoln's government and household help to carry out his policy of preserving the Union through a dreadful and bloody Civil War.

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This is a story of political life in Washington among congressmen, the press and the social elites during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower In this rarefied, privileged environment the question of whether or not America would choose empire over republic (or at least over an oligarchy that minded its own business) was always a foregone conclusion. Fits of scruple might percolate up among the riff-raff from time to time, but at the end of the day someone was going to rape China and it might as well be America. As such, I say, it’s a better book than most of the others in the series, but it’s still less effective. Daheur, Jawad. 2016. Exporting Environmental Burdens into the Central-European Periphery: Christmas Tree Trade and Unequal Ecological Exchange between Germany and Habsburg Galicia around 1900. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 46: 147–167. It’s rare for a male writer to fully develop the moral complexity of his female characters, rarer still in a writer of Vidal’s pre-feminist generation. The development of Caroline Sanford is masterful.