Dear colleagues! Do you happen to know books or articles (in English, French, German) on how empires (especially European colonial powers in Asia and Africa) used their minting of coins not only according to its intended purpose (pertaining to economy), but also to the purpose of propagandizing the ideas of their invincibility, beneficial character etc. with the help of certain images on coins (like the portraits of kings etc.)? I mean the symbolic role of coins to make imperial rule more acceptable for colonial subjects. So far I know just one such book: Abramzon M.G. Coins as the Means of Propaganda of the Official Policy of the Roman Empire (Moscow, 1995, in Russian).
Попробуйте посмотреть:
R. A. Hadley. Royal propaganda of Seleucus I and Lysimachus // The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 94 (1974). P. 50–65.
Andrew Meadows, Jonathan Williams. Moneta and monuments: coinage and politics in Republican Rome // The Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 91 (2001). P. 27–49.
Ну как же, первая статья на эллинистическом материале. Были еще какие-то работы, и тоже по эллинизму - но это не моя специальность, так что - чем богаты. Просто попадалось вскользь :)
Имел в виду - почти исключительно на материале Рима (с учётом книги Абрамзона). :) Спасибо! Жаль, что этой темой занимаются только специалисты по древности.
Визуальные коды, ориентированные на когнитивный "отбив" у массовой аудитории, который можно затем использовать в политических целях - собственно, этим я (среди прочего) и занимаюсь. И не столько на античном материале, сколько на модерном. Правда, и не на монетном тоже. Посмотрите несколько текстов - могут пригодиться в общеметодологическом плане:
https://www.academia.edu/11675202/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F
https://www.academia.edu/13160476/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82_%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F_%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5
https://www.academia.edu/15345075/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%B2_%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5
ну и т.д. - на Академии (да и здесь, на Гейт) повыложено.
Dear Professor de Sousa, thank you indeed! All articles are quite to the point! The only unfortunate thing is that the most useful of them is in Spanish which I do not know. Yet the articles are very helpful. Thank you! :)
Of the cuff, I can only think of Imperial Rome examples, but it may be worth looking into Pre and Post-Colonial Spanish and The Inca in South America.
Dear Ms Molinar, thank you for your suggestion! You are quite right; my Russian colleague with whom I exchanged posts above, has confirmed that it is Hellenism and ancient Rome that are explored a bit in this respect. Post-colonial Latin America is also relevant, I agree! As to the Incas, they did not use coins as such, I am afraid: they used seashells, coca leaves and things like that...
Hi Mr. Fursov,
I didn't mean to imply that the Inca used coins, in fact they used the quipi or knotted rope system for tallying. Rather my suggestion was to inquire if the Spanish used their own coinage as a form of propaganda on the Inca as they took over the system.
I see! The Spaniards might well have done so: coins as the means to propagate the power of his Most Catholic Majesty and the Christian church as well.
View this book concerning the Roman and Byzantine Empire:
1. Ancient Coin Collecting: The Roman World - Politics and Propaganda v. 3 by Sayles, Wayne G. (1997),KP Books,
2. Roman History from Coins: Some Uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian by Michael Grant. (1968),Cambridge University Press,
3. To Byzantino Nomisma: Meso synallagis kai ekfrasi autokratorikis propagandas (Byzantine Coinage: Medium of transaction and manifestation of imperial propaganda) by Vasso Penna. (2002), Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
Dear Dr Simonovic, thank you for the suggestions! Well, I don't read Greek, but the rest of the books are accessible. And the list you kindly gave me confirms that it is predominantly the Antiquity which has been studied in this respect so far. Last month I tried to make a little contribution to the study of another epoch and countries by publishing an article on the coin propaganda of colonial empires in Afro-Asian world (in Russian).
You're welcome. Just mention that you book that you think is written in the Greek language is actually written in Greek and in English. Two language is. The book I had in my hands. I used it for one of my research.
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