Timothy William Waters
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300235890
- eISBN:
- 9780300249439
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300235890.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter surveys current law and politics, revealing a period of ferment and stagnation: the postwar order in its late, classical decadence. By the 1970s, the world had settled on the classical ...
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This chapter surveys current law and politics, revealing a period of ferment and stagnation: the postwar order in its late, classical decadence. By the 1970s, the world had settled on the classical model of self-determination—a formal set of rules, elegant and stable in its principles and assumptions. Of course, in reality such models and moments are anything but stable, and ever since there has been almost continuous ferment and change. Indeed, one could say that as the classical model was announced, even while it was still forming, the world entered into the postclassical era, in which the classical model persists, still dominant but increasingly indeterminate, insensible, decaying, unable to explain its own premises or operate effectively: an age of self-determinative decadence. The chapter then explores the elements and operations of the classical model, including recent challenges.Less
This chapter surveys current law and politics, revealing a period of ferment and stagnation: the postwar order in its late, classical decadence. By the 1970s, the world had settled on the classical model of self-determination—a formal set of rules, elegant and stable in its principles and assumptions. Of course, in reality such models and moments are anything but stable, and ever since there has been almost continuous ferment and change. Indeed, one could say that as the classical model was announced, even while it was still forming, the world entered into the postclassical era, in which the classical model persists, still dominant but increasingly indeterminate, insensible, decaying, unable to explain its own premises or operate effectively: an age of self-determinative decadence. The chapter then explores the elements and operations of the classical model, including recent challenges.
Walter Goffart
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226300719
- eISBN:
- 9780226300726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226300726.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to ...
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Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, it discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. The author focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, “modern” past. The book concludes with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870.Less
Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, it discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. The author focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, “modern” past. The book concludes with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870.
