Nationalizing Empires (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789633860168)

The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection.

Author: Stefan Berger
ISBN-10: 9633860164
ISBN-13: 9789633860168
Publisher: Central European University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2014
Pages: 700
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.00h x 6.80w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2016