After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building 
Subtitle: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires
Contributors: Karen Barkey (Editor); Mark Von Hagen (Editor); Mark Von Hagen (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780813329635
Subjects: Imperialism; Political science & theory; World history; Politics / Current Events; History; Contemporary Politics - Former Soviet Republics; Turkey; Current Affairs; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); General; World - Colonial Studies; Political; Habsburg, House of; Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
First sentence: From Herodotus to Montesquieu and beyond, poets, historians, and philosophers have recurrently produced one of our culture's standard literary forms: the dirge for a fallen empire.