Comparing empires : encounters and transfers in the long nineteenth century / edited by Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leonhard, Jörn.

Hirschhausen, Ulrike von, 1964-

J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Series:

Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History ; v. 1.

Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--History--19th century.

Colonies.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

History.

History, Modern--19th century.

History, Modern.

Europe--Colonies.

Europe.

Physical Description:

556 s. : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen ; Oakville, CT : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2011]

Summary:

European Empires, with their multi-ethnic societies, have long been considered as failures, and their history was often presented as a narrative of mere disintegration and decay. With the ever-dominating subject of nation-state formation receding, a new scope for considering empires as the much longer and pervasive alternative in European history opens up. Against this background, this volume contributes to a more systematic comparison of the ambivalent and changing relationships between centre and periphery, between colonizers and colonized in the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire. The spectrum of such relationships reaches from infrastructures and political conflicts to the practice of monarchy and religion and war experiences. A mere addition of case-studies is avoided by inter-relating the contributions on the basis of comparative comments by leading specialists in the respective fields.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

3525310404

9783525310403

OCLC:

821574040