Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Teufelsdrockh's Dilemma: On Symbolism, Politics, and History -Sean Wilentz PT. 1. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL OVERVIEW 1. Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power -Clifford Geertz PT. 2. RITUAL, KINGSHIP, AND POLITICS IN FRANCE, C. 900-1715 2. Models of Rulership in French Royal Ceremonial -Ralph E. Giesey 3. Legend, Ritual, and Discourse in the Lit de Justice Assembly: French Constitutional Ideology, 1527-1641 -Sarah Hanley PT. 3. THE LIMITS OF SYMBOLIC POWER: SPAIN, C. 1157-1643 4. Unsacred Monarchy: The Kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages -Teofilo F. Ruiz 5. Power and Propaganda in the Spain of Philip IV -J. H. Elliott PT. 4. RITES OF POWER SINCE THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA 6. Politics, Images, and Symbols in Post-Revolutionary France -Maurice Agulhon 7. Splendor out of Court: Royal Spectacle and Pageantry in Modern Britain, c. 1820-1977 -David Cannadine 8. Moscow and Petersburg: The Problem of Political Center in Tsarist Russia, 1881-1914 -Richard Wortman PT. 5. SYMBOLISM, POLITICS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE: COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND INDUSTRIAL GERMANY 9. Communication and Control: Authority Metaphors and Power Contests on Colonel Landon Carter's Virginia Plantation, 1752-1778 -Rhys Isaac 10. Organizational Order or Eigensinn? Workers' Privacy and Workers' Politics in Imperial Germany -Alf Ludtke Contributors Index

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