Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire
Autor Col. Patrick Kelley National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.) Autor National Intelligence Universityen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 dec 2008 – vârsta de la 18 până la 95 ani
Patrick Kelley explores the limits of institutional knowledge regarding information gathering and knowledge in imperial political structures. The author explores how an empire’s culture can shape the information it receives and its ability to process information. The book ranges across time to examine the achievements and failures of empires to use information as a tool of governance and domination.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781932946208
ISBN-10: 1932946209
Pagini: 231
Ilustrații: Illustrated; some color
Dimensiuni: 160 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: National Defense Intelligence College
Colecția United States Dept. of Defense
ISBN-10: 1932946209
Pagini: 231
Ilustrații: Illustrated; some color
Dimensiuni: 160 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: National Defense Intelligence College
Colecția United States Dept. of Defense
Cuprins
Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS …………………..
COMMENTARIES…………………………………..
INTRODUCTION………………………………………..…………1
An Empire of Information…………………………….……………17
Thuggee: Making the Invisible Visible…………….……………….27
Sai bil’ fesad: Fomenting Evil in the World…….………………….39
Rome: Concealing and Revealing…………………………………..47
Barzakh: The Intermediate World…………………………………..61
Rhizomes: Unity and Multiplicity…………………………………..73
Nomads and States: Tent of Osman/House of Osman…………..…..87
Chrono-Politics: The Accelerating Archive……………………..….103
Apocalypse: The Sepoy Revolt of 1857……………………………113
Masquerade: Agents and Actors……………………………………123
Josephus: The “Hellenizing” Glass…………………………………137
Derive and Drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman Situationist………….145
Boukoloi: Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History……………153
Ekphrasis: Showing or Telling?.........................................................161
Boudica: A Terrible Disaster……………………………………….173
Lessons Learned (or rather…observed)………………………..…..183
BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………..199
INDEX………………………………………………………………………225
ABOUT THE AUTHOR………………………………………………….....231
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS …………………..
COMMENTARIES…………………………………..
INTRODUCTION………………………………………..…………1
An Empire of Information…………………………….……………17
Thuggee: Making the Invisible Visible…………….……………….27
Sai bil’ fesad: Fomenting Evil in the World…….………………….39
Rome: Concealing and Revealing…………………………………..47
Barzakh: The Intermediate World…………………………………..61
Rhizomes: Unity and Multiplicity…………………………………..73
Nomads and States: Tent of Osman/House of Osman…………..…..87
Chrono-Politics: The Accelerating Archive……………………..….103
Apocalypse: The Sepoy Revolt of 1857……………………………113
Masquerade: Agents and Actors……………………………………123
Josephus: The “Hellenizing” Glass…………………………………137
Derive and Drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman Situationist………….145
Boukoloi: Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History……………153
Ekphrasis: Showing or Telling?.........................................................161
Boudica: A Terrible Disaster……………………………………….173
Lessons Learned (or rather…observed)………………………..…..183
BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………..199
INDEX………………………………………………………………………225
ABOUT THE AUTHOR………………………………………………….....231
Notă biografică
Patrick Kelley is a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in South Asia, a career path particularly suited to encouraging a distinctive interweaving of academic, intelligence and military issues.