Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World

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Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young
Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - Всего страниц: 430
The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. 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. Questioning the sharpness of the break implied by the empire/nation binary, the contributors explore the many ways in which empires were often nation-like and nations behaved imperially. 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. Understanding this transition allows us to better interpret the contemporary political order and new forms of global hegemony. -- From product description.
 

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Introduction
1
The Spanish Empire in the Americas
33
The Limits of AtlanticWorld Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico 18101821
35
The Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture The Public and the Private in the Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico Colombia and Br...
68
Selfhood and Nationhood in Latin America From Colonial Subject to Democratic Citizen
106
The Middle East and Eastern Europe
135
Empires as Prisons of Nations versus Empires as Political Opportunity Structures An Exploration of the Role of Nationalism in Imperial Dissolutions i...
138
Changing Modalities of Empire A Comparative Study of Ottoman and Habsburg Decline
167
How the Qing Became China
229
Going Imperial TibetoMongolian Buddhism and Nationalisms in China and Inner Asia
260
The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
297
The Long Road from Empire Legacies of Nation Building in the Soviet Successor States
299
Setting the Political Agenda Cultural Discourse in the Estonian Transition
340
Afterword The Return of Empire?
373
Selected Bibliography
389
Index
409

Dreams of Empire Dreams of Nations
198
The Chinese Empire
227
About the Contributors
429
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