The end of empires : introductory remarks
- 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. ...
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| Author: | Thomas DuveORCiDGND, Massimo Meccarelli |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-505676 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12946/rg26/300-301 |
| ISSN: | 2195-9617 |
| ISSN: | 1619-4993 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history |
| Publisher: | Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
| Contributor(s): | Stefan Vogenauer |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/07/25 |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| First Page: | 300 |
| Last Page: | 301 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 452255910 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
