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Empire to Nation - Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
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Empire to Nation - Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
Series: World Social Change
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The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining
political transition in the making of the modern world. As United
States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must
understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of
large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of
the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the
empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on
Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the
transition. Questioning the sharpness of the break implied by the
empire/nation binary, the contributors explore the many ways in
which empires were often nation-like and nations behaved
imperially. While previous studies have focused on the rise and
fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of
nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the
empire-to-nation transition itself. Understanding this transition
allows us to better interpret the contemporary political order and
new forms of global hegemony.
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