Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond: Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics (Routledge Studies in Modern History)

Synopsis

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United States and New Zealand. However, this breadth and versatility are not goals in themselves. Rather, they are the means to work out an integrated approach to personality cults, capable of overcoming both the dominance of much-discussed 20th century poster examples (Bolshevism-Nazism-Fascism) and the lack of interest in the related practices of leader adoration in religious and cultural contexts. Instead of reiterating the understandable but unfruitful fixation on rulers as the cults’ focal points, the authors focus on communicative patterns and interactional chains linking rulers with their subjects: in this light, the adoration of political figures is seen as a collective enterprise impossible without active, if often tacit, collaboration between rulers and their constituencies.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

280 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000177176

Related ISBNs:

9780429275432, 9780367546939, 9780367546939, 9780367225353, 9780367225353

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/14/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Kirill Postoutenko and Darin Stephanov

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kirill Postoutenko

Edited by:

Darin Stephanov