Empire to nation : historical perspectives on the making of the modern world /

Other Authors: Esherick, Joseph., Kayal¸, Hasan., Van Young, Eric.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young
  • The limits of Atlantic-world nationalism in a revolutionary age: imagined communities and lived communities in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young
  • The great transformation of law and legal culture: "the public" and "the private" in the transition from empire to nation in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, 1750-1850 / Victor M. Uribe-Uran
  • Selfhood and nationhood in Latin America: from colonial subject to democratic citizen / Carlos A. Forment
  • Empires as prisons of nations vs. empires as political opportunity structures: an exploration of the role of nationalism in imperial dissolutions in Europe / Ellen Comisso
  • Changing modalities of empire: a comparative study of the Ottoman and Habsburg decline / Karen Barkey
  • Dreams of empire, dreams of nations / Reşat Kasaba
  • How the Qing became China / Joseph W. Esherick
  • Going imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian buddhism and nationalisms in China and inner Asia / Uradyn E. Bulag
  • The long road from empire: legacies of nation-building in the Soviet successor states / Edward W. Walker
  • Setting the political agenda: cultural discourse in the Estonian transition / Cynthia S. Kaplan
  • Afterword: the return of empire? / Joseph W. Esherick.