Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. INTRODUCTION: Building Nations In and With Empires—A Reassessment 1
5. “A World Empire, Sea-Girt”1: The British Empire, State and Nations, 1780–1914 31
6. The First Napoleonic Empire, 1799–1815 99
7. Colonialism and Nation-Building in Modern France 135
8. Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Case of the Spanish Empire, 1700–1914 195
9. Building the Nation Among Visions of German Empire 247
10. The Romanov Empire and the Russian Nation 309
11. Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building, and Regional Integration in the Habsburg Monarchy 369
12. Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire 429
13. Nation-Building and Nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire 461
14. Empire, City, Nation: Venice’s Imperial Past and the “Making of Italians” from Unification to Fascism 511
15. COMMENTS
16. The European Old Regime and the Imperial Question: A Modernist View of a Contemporary Question 553
17. “Imperial Nationalism” as a Challenge for the Study of Nationalism 573
18. Nationalizing Imperial Armies: A Comparative and Transnational Study of Three Empires 593
19. Multi-Ethnic Empires and Nation- Building: Comparative Perspectives on the late Nineteenth Century and the First World War 629
20. Empires and Their Core Territories on the Eve of 1914: A Comment 647
21. Contributors 661
22. Index compiled by Stefan Braun 667