Empire to nation
Subtitle: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world
By: edited by Joeseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young.
Contributors: Esherick, Joseph.; Kayalı, Hasan.; Van Young, Eric.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: World politics -- 19th century; World politics -- 20th century; State, The -- History -- 19th century; State, The -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young; title: The limits of Atlantic-world nationalism in a revolutionary age: imagined communities and lived communities in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young; title: 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; title: Selfhood and nationhood in Latin America: from colonial subject to democratic citizen / Carlos A. Forment; title: 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; title: Changing modalities of empire: a comparative study of the Ottoman and Habsburg decline / Karen Barkey; title: Dreams of empire, dreams of nations / Resat Kasaba; title: How the Qing became China / Joseph W. Esherick; title: Going imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian buddhism and nationalisms in China and inner Asia / Uradyn E. Bulag; title: The long road from empire: legacies of nation-building in the Soviet successor states / Edward W. Walker; title: The emergence of political agendas: the independence movement in Estonia in 1985-1991 / Cynthia S. Kaplan.