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Der Sturz Napoleons jährt sich 2014 zum zweihundertsten Mal; und ebenso die Restauration der französischen Monarchie unter den Bourbonen. Was bedeutet aber überhaupt "Restauration"? Volker Sellin löst den Begriff aus der Fixierung auf das Epochenjahr 1814 und interpretiert Restauration übergreifend als eine Politik der Konsolidierung der von der Revolution bedrohten Monarchien durch den Erlass von Verfassungen. Europäisch vergleichend von Spanien bis Russland entwirft er auf dieser Grundlage eine überraschende Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Monarchy --- History --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Restauration, monarchies, constitutions, political legitimacy, legal history. --- 1800-1899 --- Europe --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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'The Universal Republic' examines whether a democratic world state is a feasible and desirable solution to the problem of establishing effective and just governance on the planet we share.

International organization. --- Democracy. --- Federal government. --- Republicanism. --- Utopias. --- world government, world state, world federalism, global democracy, global governance, feasibility, desirability, political legitimacy, coercion, harm, realistic utopia --- Politics and Government. --- Politics & government.

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An innovative examination of our understanding of political legitimacy in Mali, and its wider implications for democratization and political modernity in the Global South.

Legitimacy of governments --- Postcolonialism --- Democracy --- Mali --- Politics and government --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Decolonization --- African Politics. --- Democracy. --- Governance. --- Legitimacy Crisis. --- Mali Coup. --- Political Challenges. --- Political Identity. --- Political Instability. --- Political Legitimacy. --- Political Modernity. --- Political Order. --- Postcolonial Mali. --- Transition Period.

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Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics. Negara means "country" or "seat of political authority" in Indonesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for. Power served pomp, not pomp power." Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society. Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.

History of Asia --- anno 1800-1899 --- Bali [island] --- Bali Island (Indonesia) --- Bali (Indonésie : Ile) --- Civilization --- Politics and government --- Civilisation --- Politique et gouvernement --- -Bali Island (Indonesia) --- -Lesser Sunda Islands --- -Civilization --- Bali (Indonésie : Ile) --- Lesser Sunda Islands --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Theater --- Bali. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Badung. --- Besakih. --- Brahmana. --- Dutch conquest. --- Head of State Temple. --- Jembrana. --- Karengasem. --- Klungkung. --- Krambitan. --- Lombok. --- Mahayuga system. --- Majapahit conquest. --- Mount Meru. --- Muslim. --- Origin Temple. --- agriculture. --- alliance. --- androgyny. --- bagawanta. --- cakorda. --- clientship. --- core line. --- core-periphery. --- crafts. --- directional symbolism. --- domination. --- ecological adaptation. --- endogamy. --- exemplary center. --- genealogy. --- geopolitics. --- griya. --- hermeneutics. --- hierarchy. --- historiography. --- imports. --- irrigation society. --- judges. --- kingship. --- land taxation. --- landholdings. --- marriage. --- negara adat. --- obeisance. --- padmasana. --- palace layout. --- paramount lord. --- pecatu system. --- perbekel system. --- political legitimacy. --- rice cult. --- Bali Island (Indonesia) - Civilization --- Bali Island (Indonesia) - Politics and government --- Insel --- Balinesen --- Kleine Sundainseln

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This book focuses on the traditional Chinese ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits, a significant but largely overlooked sub-field of Chinse religious studies. This system mainly comprised the five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, and was maintained for two thousand years in imperial China. As state ritual, it was constructed of by Confucian ritual culture, but in practice, it gradually interacted and integrated with various religious traditions, such as Daoism, Buddhism, and folk belief, especially in its local manifestation and dissemination. The eighteen great mountains and waters marked geographical and directional borders and territories modelled on the yin-yang and five-phase framework that helped shape Chinese people’s cosmographical understanding of the world. Together, they constituted a set of sacred spaces symbolizing the sanctioned political legitimacy of the imperium and functioning as the loca for communication with the divine, as well as the media between religion and its secular context, state ideology and local beliefs, or various ethnic groups. Through the discovery of a rich variety of historical sources, especially stele inscriptions preserved in the sacrificial temples, the contributors of the ten chapters in this volume examine the sacred peaks, strongholds, seas, and waterways respectively. While each of the chapters explores one or more perspectives, together they reveal the rich implications and ramification of the ritual system and present the first comprehensive study of this sub-field.

Religion & beliefs --- five sacred peaks --- five strongholds --- four seas --- four waterways --- state ritual system of sacrifice --- Chinese religion --- Chinese historical geography --- South Sea God --- state sacrificial ritual --- Zhang Jiuling --- Zhang Jiuzhang --- Zhang Jiugao --- Tang dynasty --- Buddhism --- Mount Yi --- Eastern Stronghold Temple --- state sacrifice --- Daoism --- Complete Perfection Daoism --- early Chinese poetry --- medieval Chinese poetry --- rivers --- fu (rhapsody) --- Milky Way --- noble titles --- mountain and water spirits --- Tang era --- Mount Yiwulü --- Northern Stronghold --- Beizhen --- ethnic minority in northern China --- legitimacy of political regime --- the Yangzi River --- water spirits --- official sacrifice --- codes of state ritual --- imperial power --- Tang China --- Sima Chengzhen --- shrines for the perfected lords of the five sacred peaks --- sacred river --- Jidu --- state ritual system --- political legitimacy --- religious practice --- imperial China --- the South Sea God --- sacrificial ritual --- national god --- folk god --- localization