Nationalizing Empires
Alexei Miller, Stefan BergerAndrew Thompson, University of Exeter
The co-editors have assembled an impressive range of scholars who explore the entangled histories of empires and nationalisms, including the emergence of imperial nationalisms and their legacies in the histories of “post-imperial” nation-states. It also provides an important and rich contribution to transnational history.
Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University
Nationalizing Empires is an important contribution to the growing literature on the European empires. It jeopardizes the conventional approach of a fundamental opposition between empires and nation-building in focusing on their entanglements and interactions. So, the sixteen case studies and comparative chapters, written by well-known specialists from nine countries, shed a fresh new light on the history of the long nineteenth century.
Andreas Kappeler, Vienna University