Chapter 8 contends that Blake’s theory and practice of art define, against Burke, an original conception of the sublime as a dynamic process located within creative activity itself rather than an empirical experience founded on passive psychological and physiological responses to external sources of terror. It argues that this shift allows Blake to give a new significance to visual representation, which is no longer cut off from the sublime, but becomes a necessary process towards it. Blake’s prophetic cycle is read as a dramatisation of the incommensurability of Vision and sensible form, which articulates the predicament of the artist, caught between the necessity to present forms, and the awareness that material representation is the first step toward a fall from Vision. The necessity of artistic production prevails because, according to Blake, it is the energetic endeavour to produce forms which demonstrates the imaginative power of the artist, which in fact is sublime in itself. This is made manisfest by the artist’s emphasis on line, and the high degree of medium reflexivity in his illuminated books.

This chapter evaluates a reductive approach to the conceptualisation of power and a reductive approach to the resolution of moral conflicts when evaluating parental power. Psychology and Foucauldian sociology are indicative of two distinct approaches to the conceptualisation of parental power. The psychology literature supports a pluralist, non-reductive approach to the conceptualisation of parental power in political philosophy. The chapter looks at the psychology literature on children's agency, where the empirical evidence suggests positive associations between children's negative freedom and children's positive freedom. It concerns the differences between science and ethics, and argues that there is an irreducible plurality of power concepts, including 'power to', 'power with', and the various forms of 'power over'. Within the 'power over' category, the chapter distinguishes coercion, interference with liberty, control, authority, and paternalism.

Rev. Ebenezer E. Jenkins was General Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and a powerful gatekeeper. Wesleyan missionaries often found property development more congenial than saving souls. Winston tried to squeeze money out of the Missionary Committee to pay off his spectacular debts. In 1893 Thomas was sent to Monywa, a bustling, cosmopolitan town and headquarters of the colonial civil service for the Chindwin district. A pecking order for building projects began to emerge. Mission houses came first, and were most expensive. School buildings followed, and churches came last. Government grants were sometimes withdrawn without explanation leaving buildings half-finished. In Pakokku in December 1905, a 'weak' American missionary from Myingyan and a couple of Baptist Burman government officials began 'totally immersing' Wesleyans. The luxury of interdenominational squabbling merely underlined the impression that Burman resistance was crumbling.

John Lawrence, that Irish founder of the Punjab administration, was responsible for designating Simla as the summer capital of the British empire in India. Life in Punjab, as in India as a whole, was precarious for indigenes and Europeans alike. On arrival in Simla the Punjab lieut.-governor's carriage, in later years his car was one of only three allowed use of the main street and certain other roads. Dennis Fitzpatrick was lieut.-governor, Lansdowne was viceroy and the army chief was Antrim man Sir George White. At Kulu, in the village of Manali, Louis Dane would have encountered an interesting case of an Irish contribution to the growth of the fruit industry. Fruit industry is an important part of the economy of the state of Himachal Pradesh, of which Simla is the capital.

In the second chapter the authors discuss the notion of 'government of peace' and elements which constitute resistance in Northeast India and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They focus on the role of identity as seen through the glasses of ethnicity and gender. They rely on Samaddar's definition of 'government of peace' which in essence constitutes the market-driven reorientation of governance. This reorientation ties security to development and produces resistive subjectivities, according to the authors of this chapter. They claim that North India and Bosnia-Herzegovina were no exception in this regard and they discuss resistance dynamics in the two case studies. Their findings confirm the conclusion of the chapter that 'government of peace' has to adhere to the principle of heterogeneity due to the fact that it has to deal with different subjects.

This introduction provides historical background and a discussion of the translated texts. The book aims to illuminate the diversity of the aristocratic experience by providing five texts, translated into English for the first time, that show how noblemen and women from across the German kingdom lived and died approximately during 1075-1200. Margrave Wiprecht of Groitzsch emerges from these pages as a ruthless and cunning lord, one whose fortunes fluctuated dramatically as he played the games of court politics and local lordship with varying degrees of success. The extraordinary career of Bishop Otto I of Bamberg depicts how medieval Christians sought to convert pagans and convince them of the errors of their ways. An unnamed magistra, born into a ministerial family, wrote poems that have made scholars put forward various theories, in some cases identifying a pope or an archbishop of Salzburg as a potential patron for the text. A vita of the canoness Mechthild of Diessen, who had briefly been abbess of Edelstetten, written by the Cistercian monk Engelhard of Langheim. Finally the deeds of Count Ludwig III and a history of the Premonstratensian community at Arnstein.

This chapter argues that one of the most efficient strategies of visualisation of the sublime was found in ruin paintings and architectural fantasies, more specifically in the exploration of architectural fragments as a source of formal inventiveness and indeterminacy. The argument suggests that the capriccio genre, especially as it had been developed by Piranesi, provided a combination of irrationality, indeterminacy and boundlessness that made it possible to deny the figurative limitations of the visual arts, and addressed the formal issues that were raised by Burke’s Enquiry. As a result, it could be seen as a major influence on Romantic visual practices, in their quest for the sublime, as may be attested by the works of Joseph Gandy and J.M.W. Turner.

In the inter-war period, the government's propaganda experiment, in the shape of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB), radically altered the state of affairs. This chapter traces the reasons for the government's direct involvement in marketing an imperial ideology and assesses the ways in which the EMB sold the idea of 'imperial partnership' to the nation. Through a perusal of tobacco advertising by both private enterprise and the EMB, the chapter considers the response and attitudes of private enterprise to the EMB ideals. Empire tobacco as a whole and Southern Rhodesian tobacco in particular was a heavily targeted commodity. The earliest representations of Africans in British advertising were to be found on tobacco labels and signs. The abrupt decline in use of the image of the African in tobacco advertising is matched to some degree by the rising use of the image of the white male imperial consumer.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, the middle classes, empowered by commercial wealth, struggled for increased social and political power, by appropriating the authority of cultural expression to re-represent the British nation. This chapter introduces the impact of Robert Bowyer's project on the evolution of history painting through his re-representation of English history. This project is in such a way that has defined new counter-publics by constructing alternative identities for a moral British society through feminized historical images. Bowyer provided viewers of his exhibition with a passage from Hume's text to describe the narrative content of his pictures. Among the Historic Gallery's pictures, representations of domesticity and virtuous heroines, depicting the embodiment of feminine sentiment, were given a central role in the aesthetic production of moral sympathy. Bowyer's use of the feminine pronoun to describe his imagined viewer betrays a gendered definition of Historic Gallery's audience.

This chapter focuses on how the diminishing status of the working class is reflected in East German punk. There is a strong element of opposition within youth culture, especially in punk. Subcultural creativity thereby makes symbolic resistance possible through practice, objects and music. The flexibility of punk's framework enables it to constantly change and transform, which means its authenticity is periodically reframed and negotiated by members of the subculture. By placing youth culture in its broader socio-economic context, the relationship between social processes and subcultural change cannot be denied. Punk culture in East Germany has a long history of resistance and a clear anti-state position. Punks in East Germany openly display their alienation from the mainstream society and its values. East German punks demonstrate the ways by which youth can express solidarity within their social peer group(s), while also conveying the social and economic contradictions amidst which they live.

During the political debates connected with consideration of the 1900 Land Alienation Bill, Viceroy Curzon, and the Punjab governor of the time, Sir Charles Rivaz, defended the government decision. Indeed land revenue matters relating to Punjab were often treated as 'Simla affairs', as they were usually considered at summer and autumn sessions of the Viceroy's Council. The year of the 1887 act saw the start of construction of the Chenab canal headworks which was a major Productive work. The Chenab canal supplied water to colonies which were to extend to 2,859 square miles by 1906. Works on other canal colonies were underway towards the end of that century, particularly the Jhelum irrigation canal, a project on much the same model as the Chenab. Famine was racking large parts of India but Punjab, through good management, managed to avoid the worst effects.