TY - JOUR

T1 - Det københavnske perspektiv

T2 - Imperiale kontrollstrategier og lojale mellommenn i det danske imperiet

AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This article seeks to understand how Copenhagen functioned as the political core ofthe Danish empire from absolutism in 1660 to the loss of Norway in 1814, thereby contributingto the debate on how empires hang together. My focus is the imperial middlemenor intermediaries who became astonishingly loyal to the core. This loyalty wasensured not through circulation of officials across the different parts of the empire, butthrough asymmetrical contracting, various strategies of control, binding and pivotingof local elites. The professionalization of civil servants involved much continuity withthe old landowning and noble elite and ensured that corruption, deceit or local autonomymovements could be sanctioned quickly. There was nothing inevitable in the fallof the Danish empire and its transformation into a rump nation-state. Instead, imperialrule was a dominant imaginary within which almost all protest against absolutistpower took place right up until the Napoleonic wars.

AB - This article seeks to understand how Copenhagen functioned as the political core ofthe Danish empire from absolutism in 1660 to the loss of Norway in 1814, thereby contributingto the debate on how empires hang together. My focus is the imperial middlemenor intermediaries who became astonishingly loyal to the core. This loyalty wasensured not through circulation of officials across the different parts of the empire, butthrough asymmetrical contracting, various strategies of control, binding and pivotingof local elites. The professionalization of civil servants involved much continuity withthe old landowning and noble elite and ensured that corruption, deceit or local autonomymovements could be sanctioned quickly. There was nothing inevitable in the fallof the Danish empire and its transformation into a rump nation-state. Instead, imperialrule was a dominant imaginary within which almost all protest against absolutistpower took place right up until the Napoleonic wars.

KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet

KW - imperium

KW - Danmark

KW - Imperial Bureaucracy

KW - Empire

KW - Norway

KW - imperial discourses

KW - Imperialism

KW - International Relations Theory

KW - Imperial strategies

KW - loyalty

KW - middlemen

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

VL - 72

SP - 311

EP - 336

JO - Internasjonal Politikk

JF - Internasjonal Politikk

SN - 0020-577X

IS - 3

ER -