Representation of External Threats

Eberhard Crailsheim, Ph.D. (2008), is Marie-Curie fellow (IF) at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is the author of The Spanish Connection (Böhlau 2016), and has published many articles on threats on the Philippines.María Dolores Elizalde, Ph.D. (1988), is Scientific Researcher at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is specialized in international history and in colonial and postcolonial processes in Asia and the Pacific, with a particular focus on the Philippines.

"...this reader could be recommended as a topic-specific introduction to global history. [...] To be sure, the volume is a valuable undertaking for interdisciplinary research, as it brings this very vocabulary and theoretical models into historical research – or to put it in idiosyncratic German: It has a high potential of “Anschlussfähigkeit”. [...] its authors offer new perspectives on how to bring concepts and theories from political science, sociology, and ‘constructivism’ into the study of history. That is the pioneering ambition and the great achievement of this book. It should inspire and stimulate future endeavours and theory-testing."Thomas Kolnberger in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.11.2020, DOI: www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49809."Der vorliegende Band mit seinen 19 Beiträgen aus 12 Ländern zwischen Spanien und Russland, zwischen Singapur und China, der seit 2016aus einem spanischen Marie-Curie-Projekt der EU zur Kolonialgeschichte der Philippinen hervorgegangen ist, zeichnet sich demgegenüber durch überzeugende Kohärenz aus. Denn er versteht es, den allgemeinen Befund, dass Identität durch Alterität oder durch Othering zustande kommt, im Sinne einer Kulturgeschichte des Politischen als Bedrohung zu konkretisieren und zu operationalisieren. [...] Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Sammelbänden entwickelt dieser dank seiner gezielten Engführung durch Autoren und Herausgeber insgesamt ein differenziertes Instrumentarium zur Bearbeitung des historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Problems der Wahrnehmung äußerer Bedrohung."Wolfgang Reinhard in Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 47 (2020) 1, 79-80

• ContentsList of IllustationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionEberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores ElizaldePart 1 Conceptual Approaches1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical ResearchEberhard Crailsheim2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-SlavismVladimir BelousPart 2: Threat Communication3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman EmpireTheresia Raum4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century PanamaMarie Schreier5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, IndonesiaSimon C. KemperPart 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other6 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th CenturyStephan Steiner7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and MoldaviaAlexandr Osipian8 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: a Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian EmpireAnna AbalianPart 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914Federico Niglia10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern EnglandIonut Untea11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651)Irena KozmanováPart 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World12 Translatio Imperii: the ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898)Rodrigo Escribano Roca13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American ArchiveDerek Kane O’Leary14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External ThreatsPedro Ponte e SousaPart 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine ColonyJean-Noël Sanchez16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th CenturyMaría Dolores Elizalde17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of JapanDavid Manzano CosanoPart 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing DynastySrikanth Thaliyakkattil19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th CenturyQiong YuIndex