TY - JOUR AU - Hariman, Robert JF - Javnost-The Public TI - Three Tropes of Empire: Necessity, Spectacle, Affection VL - 12 IS - 4 PY - 2005 SN - 1854-8377 PB - EURICOM UR - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2005/4/2/ N2 - This essay identifies three recurrent appeals in the discourse of empire. These are presented through explication of Thucydides’ last speech to the Athenian demos, a documentary essay by Max Boot, one of the intellectual architects of the invasion of Iraq, and Edmund Burke’s speech regarding a colonial insurgency, “On Conciliation with America.” U1 - Print ISSN: 1318-3222 ER -