TY  - JOUR
A1  - Duve, Thomas
A1  - Meccarelli, Massimo
T1  - The end of empires : introductory remarks
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
N2  - The end of an empire is almost always marked with legal acts, which often serve as the founding documents of a new order. There the beginning and the end converge. For example, the constitutional documents of Hispanic America after 1810 simultaneously heralded the dawn of new states and the twilight of the Spanish Empire. Since constitutions and the state institutions they help to build are deeply imbued with symbolic power, they are an important element in constructing, perhaps even in "inventing", nations. They provide raw materials for our regimes of memory and divide history into a "before" and an "after", through which they also exert a stabilising effect. ...
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50567
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-505676
SN  - 2195-9617
SN  - 1619-4993
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
VL  - 26
SP  - 300
EP  - 301
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -