Andreas Lindholm on Nostr: npub1hpcdf…ghjn3 npub12zzul…cg7q3 1/ A clumsy translation: 'The classic concept ...
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1/ A clumsy translation:
'The classic concept "imperium" has been so strongly shaped by the reception of the ancient Roman Empire as a universal historical model that it often functions as a general topos for structurally different phenomena and has thus lost its analytical distinctiveness. The empires of the 19th and 20th centuries, however, had their very own characteristics that do not appear in this understanding of “imperium”.'
1/ A clumsy translation:
'The classic concept "imperium" has been so strongly shaped by the reception of the ancient Roman Empire as a universal historical model that it often functions as a general topos for structurally different phenomena and has thus lost its analytical distinctiveness. The empires of the 19th and 20th centuries, however, had their very own characteristics that do not appear in this understanding of “imperium”.'