Nationalizing empires / edited by Stefan Berger and Alexei Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Stefan.

Miller, A. I. (Alekseĭ Ilʹich), 1959-

Series:

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; volume III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism: history: 1800s.

Nationalism: history: 1800s.

Military history.

Europe: foreign relations: 1815-1871.

Europe: foreign relations: 1871-1915.

Europe: politics and government: 1800s.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (701 p.)

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION: Building Nations In and With Empires—A Reassessment

“A World Empire, Sea-Girt”1: 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

Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building, and Regional Integration in the Habsburg Monarchy

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

The European Old Regime and the Imperial Question: A Modernist View of a Contemporary Question

“Imperial Nationalism” as a Challenge for the Study of Nationalism

Nationalizing Imperial Armies: A Comparative and Transnational Study of Three Empires

Multi-Ethnic Empires and Nation- Building: Comparative Perspectives on the late Nineteenth Century and the First World War

Empires and Their Core Territories on the Eve of 1914: A Comment

Contributors

Index compiled by Stefan Braun

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Other Format:

9789633860168

ISBN:

9789633860175

OCLC:

1338018518