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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Esherick, Joseph, Kayalı, Hasan, Van Young, Eric
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2006]
Series:	World social change.
Subjects:	World politics > 19th century. World politics > 20th century. State, The > History > 19th century. State, The > History > 20th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

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.