Nationalizing Empires

Nationalizing Empires
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9633860164

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.

Nationalizing the Russian Empire

Nationalizing the Russian Empire
Author: Associate Professor of History Eric Lohr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2003-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674010418

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Nationalizing the Past

Nationalizing the Past
Author: S. Berger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 023029250X

Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.

Nationalism Reframed

Nationalism Reframed
Author: Rogers Brubaker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1996-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521576499

This study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties.

Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919

Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Author: Andre Schmid
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231125383

Turning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence of language and social discourse on conceptions of nationalism, national identity, and the nation-state.

Civilizing Nature

Civilizing Nature
Author: Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857455273

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.

Shatterzone of Empires

Shatterzone of Empires
Author: Omer Bartov
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253006317

From the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically vast, multicultural region through a variety of methodological lenses, this volume offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.

The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation

The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation
Author: Darius Staliūnas
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9633866936

This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.

Nationalism in Modern Europe

Nationalism in Modern Europe
Author: Derek Hastings
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350303607

Derek Hastings's Nationalism in Modern Europe is the essential guide to a potent political and cultural phenomenon that featured prominently across the modern era. With firm grounding in transnational and global contexts, the book traces the story of nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. Hastings reflects on various nationalist ideas and movements across Europe, and always with a keen appreciation of other prevalent signifiers of belonging – such as religion, race, class and gender – which helps to inform and strengthen the analysis. The text shines a light on key historiographical trends and debates and includes 20 images, 14 maps and a range of primary source excerpts which can serve to sharpen vital analytical skills which are crucial to the subject. New content and features for the second edition include: - A chapter examining region, religion, class and gender as alternative 'markers of identity' throughout the 19th century - An enhanced global dimension that covers transnational fascism and non-European comparatives - Additional primary source excerpts and figures - Historiographical updates throughout which account for recent research in the field