Literary notes about hegemony (AI summary)
In literature, the term "hegemony" is frequently used to denote a prevailing dominance—be it political, cultural, or economic—and is often associated with the exercise of power over territories, ideas, or institutions. Authors use the term to illustrate situations where one ruler or state asserts control well beyond its physical boundaries, as when a single king claimed his power extended undeterminedly outside his capital (e.g., [1]). It also appears in discussions of historical and geopolitical shifts, such as Europe’s global influence being challenged by non-European centers (e.g., [2]) or the contestations of established powers like Sparta, Athens, or Prussia (e.g., [3], [4]). The term further extends into broader analyses of cultural or ideological domination, whether referencing the restructuring of religious ideals (e.g., [5]) or the strategic ambitions of modern nations (e.g., [6]). Through these diverse applications, literature portrays hegemony as a complex interplay between domination and resistance across time and space.
- Power was in the hands of a single ruler ( wang , or king), who claimed hegemony for an undetermined distance beyond the walls of the capital.
— from Government in Republican China by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger - Non-Europeans might set up rival wealth power centers and challenge Europe's world hegemony.
— from Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History by Scott Nearing - The Athenian hegemony and its overthrow.
— from American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske - In reality it was far more, because it gave the hegemony of continental Europe to Prussia.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane - From now on, the faith no longer exercises the same hegemony as formerly over the system of ideas that we may continue to call religion.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - At one time Russia seemed destined to the hegemony of the Pacific.
— from Problems of the Pacific by Frank Fox
