 | Nationalizing Empires Subjects: Europe -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century; Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1815–1871; Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1871–1915; Europe -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Nation-building -- H; The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection. Berger Stefan : Stefan Berger is professor of social history at Ruhr University Bochum and the director of the Institute for Social Movements, RUB. Miller Alexei :Alexei Miller is recurrent visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest and senior research fellow, Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |
