Empire to nation : historical perspectives on the making of the modern world / edited by Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, and Eric Van Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esherick, Joseph.

Kayalı, Hasan.

Van Young, Eric.

Series:

World social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--19th century.

World politics.

World politics--20th century.

State, The--History--19th century.

State, The.

State, The--History--20th century.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2006]

Summary:

The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself.

Contents:

Introduction / Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, and Eric Van Young

The limits of Atlantic-world nationalism in a revolutionary age: imagined communities and lived communities in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young

The great transformation of law and legal culture: "the public" and "the private" in the transition from empire to nation in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, 1750-1850 / Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Selfhood and nationhood in Latin America: from colonial subject to democratic citizen / Carlos A. Forment

Empires as prisons of nations versus empires as political opportunity structures: an exploration of the role of nationalism in imperial dissolutions in Europe / Ellen Comisso

Changing modalities of empire: a comparative study of the Ottoman and Habsburg decline / Karen Barkey

Dreams of empire, dreams of nations / Reșat Kasaba

How the Qing became China / Joseph W. Esherick

Going imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and nationalisms in China and inner Asia / Uradyn E. Bulag

The long road from empire: legacies of nation building in the Soviet successor states / Edward W. Walker

Setting the political agenda: cultural discourse in the Estonian transition / Cynthia S. Kaplan

Afterword: the return of empire? / Joseph W. Esherick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-408) and index.

ISBN:

0742540308

0742540316

OCLC:

61309311

Publisher Number:

9780742540316

9780742540309