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This book provides a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective of dictatorships in the Hispanic World, focusing on the common strategies used to represent and/or protest these regimes in narrative, film, poetry, essays, theater, and visual arts. By looking at the similarities and differences of dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin America and Spain, we hope to provide a more panoramic view of the dictatorship that moves beyond historiographical accounts of oppression and engages actively in a more broad dialectics of resistance and a politics of memory

Spanish-American literature --- Thematology --- Dictatorship --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Despotism --- Totalitarianism

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Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an unstable autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial correspondence, and early government records to document the genesis of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated independence movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing notion that a country's democratization prospects can be directly attributed to its levels of economic development or inequality. Instead, she demonstrates that the differential strengths of India's and Pakistan's independence movements directly account for their divergent democratization trajectories. She also establishes that these movements were initially constructed to pursue historically conditioned class interests. By illuminating the source of this enduring contrast, The Promise of Power offers a broad theory of democracy's origins that will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, democratization, state-building, and South Asian political history.

Democracy --- Authoritarianism --- India --- Pakistan --- Politics and government --- Democracy. --- Authoritarianism. --- Political science --- Authority --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Politics and government. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- India - Politics and government - 1947 --- -Pakistan - Politics and government

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Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends. Ancient writers were equally fascinated with how these same individuals used deceit as a powerful tool to disguise private and public reality. The chapters in this collection examine the themes of despotism and deceit from both historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium.

Deception --- Despotism --- Political aspects --- History to 1500 --- History --- History. --- History to 1500. --- Chicanery --- Deceit --- Subterfuge --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Intrigue --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism

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Die Frühe Neuzeit kannte eine Vielzahl von Diskursen, Performanzen und Repräsentationen, die auf eine Überhöhung des Monarchen abzielten, ohne sich jedoch zu einer kohärenten Gesamtheit zusammenzufügen. Ist das umfassende Forschungskonzept "Absolutismus" diesem heterogenen Befund angemessen? Die Beiträge gehen dieser Frage im Wesentlichen anhand von französischen Beispielen nach. Sie sehen Absolutismus dabei im Sinne neuerer kulturhistorischer Ansätze nicht als "objektive" Gegebenheit oder real existierende gesellschaftliche Struktur, sondern als frühneuzeitliche Konstruktion, als sozial und kulturell konstruierte Vorstellungswelt, in der Einflussmöglichkeiten und Herrschaftsansprüche zu allererst symbolisch repräsentiert wurden.

State, The --- Despotism --- History --- Historiography --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Frankrijk. Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Duitsland. Geschiedenis. (Reeks) --- Allemagne. Relations extérieures. France. Histoire. (Collection) --- France. Relations extérieures. Allemagne. Histoire. (Collection) --- Duitsland. Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Frankrijk. Geschiedenis. (Reeks)

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Peasants --- Fascism --- Fascists --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Political activity --- History --- Dorgères, Henri, --- France --- Politics and government --- Peasantry --- Neo-fascism --- D'Halluin, Henri, --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- National socialism --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- 20th century --- Dorgères, Henri --- Biography --- 1914-1940 --- Dorg�eres, Henri,