Nationalizing Empires

by Stefan Berger (Editor), Alexei Miller (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789633860168
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Publication date:	06/14/2013
Pages:	700
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface Stefan Berger Alexei Miller vii

Introduction: Building Nations In and With Empires-A Reassessment Stefan Berger Alexei Miller 1

"A World Empire, Sea-Girt": The British Empire, State and Nations, 1780-1914 Neil Evans 31

The First Napoleonic Empire, 1799-1815 Michael Broers 99

Colonialism and Nation-Building in Modern France Robert Aldrich 135

Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Case of the Spanish Empire, 1700-1914 Xosé-Manoel Núñez 195

Building the Nation Among Visions of German Empire|vStefan Berger 247

The Romanov Empire and the Russian Nation Alexei Miller 309

Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building and Regional Integration in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1804-1918 Andrea Komlosy 369

Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire Howard Eissenstat 429

Nation-Building and Nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire Uffe Østergård 461

Empire, City, Nation: Venice's Imperial Past and the "Making of Italians" from Unification to Fascism David Laven Elsa Damien 511

The European Old Regime and the Imperial Question: A Modernist View of a Contemporary Question Jean-Frédéric Schaub 555

"Imperial Nationalism" as Challenge for the Study of Nationalism Philipp Ther 573

Nationalizing Imperial Armies: A Comparative and Transnational Study of Three Empires Alfred J. Rieber 593

Multi-Ethnic Empires and Nation-Building: Comparative Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth Century and the First World War Jörn-Leonhard 629

Empires and Their Core Territories on the Eve of 1914: A Comment Dominic Lieven 647

Contributors 661

Index 667