Nationalizing Empires

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-963-386-016-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1203 g

The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Stefan

Miller, Alexei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Introduction: Building Nations In and With Empires – a Re-assessment, ‘A World Empire, Sea-Girt’ The British Empire, State and Nations, 1780-1914, The First Napoleonic Empire, 1799-1815, Colonialism and Nation-Building in Modern France, Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Case of the Spanish Empire (1700-1914), Building the Nation Among Visions of German Empire, The Romanov Empire and the Russian Nation, The Habsburg Monarchy (1804 – 1918), Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building and Regional Integration, Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, Nation-Building and Nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire, Empire, city, nation: Venice’s imperial past and the ‘making of Italians’ from unification to fascism, Comments, Contributors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Berger is professor of social history at Ruhr University Bochum and the director of the Institute for Social Movements, RUB.

Alexei Miller is recurrent visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest and senior research fellow, Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.