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Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia.
This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Nationalism, economic development, and warfare; 1. Progress; Crystal Palace; Per capita income, population, and social development over the long run; Unprecedented rise in the standard of living, unprecedented increase in violence, 1816-1998?; The hypotheses; Plan of the study; 2. Tribalism, proto-nationalism, and nationalism; Modernists and non-modernists; A conflicted brain; Tribalism; Proto-nationalism: elites and states.
- Nationalism: ideologyNationalism: infrastructure; Nationalism: geopolitics and the Other; The argument summarized; 3. Ideology and nationalism; Why Europe?; Radical Enlightenment, Moderate Enlightenment, and Counter-Enlightenment; Civic nationalism: gradual spread of political voice and the knowledge economy; Darwinism as a progressive evolutionary theory; Marxism as a progressive theory of economic and political evolution; Nationalism and ideological branding in the twentieth century; Prophets.
- 4. Lethality at lower prices: how the American System of Manufactures and mass production shaped modern warfareEnlightenment and American nationalism; Interchangeable parts and machine tools: the American System of Manufactures as a general purpose technology; The factor bias thesis: two objections; The American System of Manufactures: human development, the patent system, "do-it-yourself," and convergence in invention, 1790-1860; The political economy of the Civil War; Mass production and disembodied technological change, 1860-1900; Lethality and dispersion; Total War; Part II: Europe.
- 5. Great Britain, 1600-1850A protracted revolution; Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution; Republican France becomes the Other; Great Britain at midcentury; 6. Germany, 1800-1945; Germany as a multi-state system; The coming of the German Empire; The second Industrial Revolution and German economic and military advance; The struggle for national branding and the coming of the Third Reich; The Nazi revolution; Holocaust and Shoah; 7. Yugoslavia, 1920-1990; The small nation-state problem; Germany, Italy, and Yugoslavia, 1919-1945; Titoism; A failed state; Part III: Asia.
- 8. Japan, 1800-1945Tokugawa Japan as a multi-state system; Meiji nationalism; Militarism; The failure of Total War; 9. China, 1900-2000; The emergence of a multi-state system in China; Japan as the emergent Other; Maoism as Chinese nationalism; Communist nationalism in an open economy; Part IV: Implications and conclusions; 10. Under the shadow of the Hemoclysm; Nation-state creation and the Hemoclysm; The impact of declining costs of exerting military force; 11. Conclusions; Appendix: key analytical concepts and basic national tables.