Empire to Nation Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World,9780742540316

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

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ISBN13: 9780742540316
ISBN10: 0742540316
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-27
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. 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. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction 1(34)
Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young
Part I: The Spanish Empire in the Americas
2 The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821
35(33)
Eric Van Young
3 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
68(38)
Victor M. Uribe-Uran
4 Selfhood and Nationhood in Latin America: From Colonial Subject to Democratic Citizen
106(32)
Carlos A. Forment
Part II: The Middle East and Eastern Europe
5 Empires as Prisons of Nations versus Empires as Political Opportunity Structures: An Exploration of the Role of Nationalism in Imperial Dissolutions in Europe
138(29)
Ellen Comisso
6 Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of Ottoman and Habsburg Decline
167(31)
Karen Barkey
7 Dreams of Empire, Dreams of Nations
198(31)
Resat Kasaba
Part III: The Chinese Empire
8 How the Qing Became China
229(31)
Joseph W. Esherick
9 Going Imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Nationalisms in China and Inner Asia
260
Uradyn E. Bulag
Part IV: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
10 The Long Road from Empire: Legacies of Nation Building in the Soviet Successor States
299(41)
Edward W. Walker
11 Setting the Political Agenda: Cultural Discourse in the Estonian Transition
340(33)
Cynthia S. Kaplan
12 Afterword: The Return of Empire?
373(16)
Joseph W. Esherick
Selected Bibliography 389(20)
Index 409(20)
About the Contributors 429

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