Nationalizing empires Preface Stefan Berger and Alexei Miller Introduction: Building nations in and with empires : a re assessment Stefan Berger and Alexei Miller A world empire sea girt : the British Empire state and nations 1780 1914 Neil Evans The first Napoleonic Empire 1799 1815 Michael Broers Colonialism and nation building in modern France Robert Aldrich Nation building and regional integration : the case of the Spanish Empire (1700 1914) Xosé Manoel Núñez Building the nation among visions of German empire Stefan Berger The Romanov empire and the Russian nation Alexei Miller The Habsburg Monarchy (1804 1918) : imperial cohesion nation building and regional integration Andrea Komlosy Modernization imperial nationalism and the ethnicization of confessional identity in the late Ottoman Empire Howard Eisenstat Nation building and nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire Uffe Østergård Empire city nation : Venices imperial past and the making of Italians from unification to fascism David Laven and Elsa Damien Comments European Old Regime and the imperial question : a modernist view at a contemporary question Jean Frédéric Schaub Imperial nationalism as challenge for the study of nationalism Philipp Ther Nationalizing imperial armies : a comparative and transnational study of three empires Alfred J. Rieber Multi ethnic empires and nation building : comparative perspectives on the late nineteenth century and the First World War Jörn Leonhard Empires and their core territories on the eve of 1914 : a comment Dominic Lieven