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.…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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