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

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Esherick, Joseph, Kayalı, Hasan, Van Young, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2006.
Colección:World social change.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, 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 versus 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 / Reșat 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.
  • 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 / Resat 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
  • The emergence of political agendas: the independence movement in Estonia in 1985-1991 / Cynthia S. Kaplan.