Hans KellerHans Keller writes about how power reorganises itself when symbols die. Raised between garrison towns and railway hubs, he is drawn to the junction where logistics meets legitimacy. He has walked former front lines and sat in quiet archives, listenin to how ordinary paperwork becomes extraordinary power. His work traces the thread that runs from dynastic ritual to party office, from parade ground to ration book. A small family story sits beneath the scholarship: a great-grandparent who left a border village twice because the border moved, not the house. That experience informs his calm, unsentimental style. Keller's mission is to give readers a usable map of imperial transition so they can recognise early the habits that make free citizens drift into ordered subjects. Read More Read Less