An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is ideal for academics and postgraduates of early modern Lithuania, early modern Eastern Europe, historical sociology, and the history of empires.
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is ideal for academics and postgraduates of early modern Lithuania, early modern Eastern Europe, historical sociology, and the history of empires.
Zenonas Norkus is a Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at Vilnius University. His previous publications include Max Weber and Rational Choice (2001) and Which Democracy, Which Capitalism? Post-communist Transformation in Lithuania from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology (2008).
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Contents List of figures List of maps List of tables Introduction Part 1 Translatio imperii and Lithuanian History 1. 1.Translatio imperii in outline 1. 2. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an empire in historiography Part 2 Empire and Imperialism: Methodological Strategies 2. 1. On the controversies over concepts and the ways how to solve them 2. 2. Cliometry of empires 2. 3. The empire and the inter-polity system: views from international relations studies 2. 4. The empire from the viewpoint of constitutional law and comparative politics 2. 5. Definition and typology of empires 2. 6. Cliodynamics of empires Part 3 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an Empire 3. 1. Old Lithuanians as imperialist liberators 3. 2. The Grand Duchy in the pursuit of hegemony: aims and achievements 3.3. Whose empire was the Grand Duchy? 3. 4. The metropole and peripheries of the Grand Duchy 3. 5. Why was it so difficult to identify the Grand Duchy as an empire? 3. 6. The Grand Duchy as an empire with adjectives 3. 7. On the dates of birth and death of the Lithuanian empire 3. 8. Lithuanian imperialism and the birth of the Lithuanian state 3. 9. Unaccomplished mission of the Lithuanian empire Concluding generalisations Index
Contents List of figures List of maps List of tables Introduction Part 1 Translatio imperii and Lithuanian History 1. 1.Translatio imperii in outline 1. 2. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an empire in historiography Part 2 Empire and Imperialism: Methodological Strategies 2. 1. On the controversies over concepts and the ways how to solve them 2. 2. Cliometry of empires 2. 3. The empire and the inter-polity system: views from international relations studies 2. 4. The empire from the viewpoint of constitutional law and comparative politics 2. 5. Definition and typology of empires 2. 6. Cliodynamics of empires Part 3 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an Empire 3. 1. Old Lithuanians as imperialist liberators 3. 2. The Grand Duchy in the pursuit of hegemony: aims and achievements 3.3. Whose empire was the Grand Duchy? 3. 4. The metropole and peripheries of the Grand Duchy 3. 5. Why was it so difficult to identify the Grand Duchy as an empire? 3. 6. The Grand Duchy as an empire with adjectives 3. 7. On the dates of birth and death of the Lithuanian empire 3. 8. Lithuanian imperialism and the birth of the Lithuanian state 3. 9. Unaccomplished mission of the Lithuanian empire Concluding generalisations Index
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