Nationalizing Empires

Stefan Berger, Alexei Miller, Stefan Berger, Alexei Miller

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9789633860168
• eBook ISBN: 9789633860175
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Title page
• copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Building Nations In and With Empires—A Reassessment
• “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
• Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building and Regional Integration in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1804–1918
• 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