tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432572017178461989.post3474908848709914675..comments2022-03-31T20:32:25.983-04:00Comments on PM's Question Time: Definitions matter, so please provide themUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432572017178461989.post-58907825280074910742012-01-26T11:23:58.339-05:002012-01-26T11:23:58.339-05:00My objection is mostly that "imperium" i...My objection is mostly that "imperium" is Latin and that "hegemony" is both more accurate and also, you know, Greek. So why confuse the issue?<br /><br />And Immerman is using this discussion to set up an investigation of AMERICAN empire. This places a much higher burden on him to be theoretically sound in his use of terms, since informality in definition makes comparisons among Greek, Roman, and American "empires" difficult at best.<br /><br />--PMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432572017178461989.post-72505310966168691352012-01-23T16:06:26.767-05:002012-01-23T16:06:26.767-05:00Immerman doesn't in the quoted paragraph use &...Immerman doesn't in the quoted paragraph use 'imperium' to describe the Athenians' relation w the Delian League. He says the <i>Greeks themselves</i> used the word (or a Greek equivalent I guess) to describe that relationship.<br /><br />Informal or otherwise 'inadequate' definition of concepts should not make someone "hard to read". Annoying maybe, but not hard. I feel a little sorry for your friends who find historians "hard to read" for this reason. You know what I find "hard to read"? An APSR article that has two paragraphs of English and 100 paragraphs of equations. But of course that's b/c my grad-school training was deficient. Which I can't really blame for my not getting a job after finishing my degree, though it probably, on balance, didn't help.LFChttp://howlatpluto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com