Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Xose-Manoel Núñez
  • Building the nation among visions of German empire / Stefan Berger
  • The Romanov empire and the Russian nation / Alexei Miller
  • Imperial cohesion, nation-building and regional integration in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1804-1918 / 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 Ostergård
  • Empire, city, nation : Venice's imperial past and the "making of Italians" from unification to fascism / David Laven and Elsa Damien
  • Comments. The European Old Regime and the imperial question : a modernist view of a contemporary question / Jean-Frederic 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