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1 online resource (xi, 475 pages) |
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Table of contents; introduction; part i; chapter one; living at the crossroads of empires; from the balkansto the habsburg empire; in search of a new political project; legitimacy and innovationin the chinese imperial traditionas seen by the jesuits; chapter two; the crisis of the ottoman empireseen by seventeenth- and eighteenthcenturyitalians; the tanzimat and the struggleof non-muslim minoritiesfor citizenship; becoming a turk; myth or reality?the presumptive romanian-turkishmilitary conventionand the international public opinion; an anti-nationalistic dream; chapter three. |
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An italian diplomatbetween east and westthe russian secret missionin the vatican between 1887 and 1906; the strengthening of the politicalpower of the russian empirein the steppe area of the northcaucasus region in the middleof the nineteenth century; part ii; chapter four; from the creation of nationalidentities to the interethnic conflict; the austro-hungarian language policyin bosnia and herzegovina; orientals among the people of the east; chapter five; from "millet" to "nations"and/or "minorities"; the historical genesisof the 1919 minority treaties. |
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Social inclusionand identity strategiesthe russian languageamong hungariansin the transcarpathianregion (ukraine); part iii; chapter six; vittorio alfieri'sconspiracy and don garcia; nations and national minoritiesin the light of pasquils; conceptualizing the georgian nationwithin the romanov empire; "the amazonian idol"; oriental exoticismin the serbian art of the eighteenthand nineteenth centuries; the serbian elite and the issueof development of national culturein the late nineteenth century; montenegro through the lensof the marubi atelier; from pittsburgh to marosvécs. |
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Byzantine tradition in east-centraleurope in the nineteenth centuryavant-gardism or cult of the past?brazilian intellectualsand the disputes between nationalismsin the interwar period; shifting balkanizationfrom the nineteenth centuryto the present day; headsman, specters and monsters; a brief analysis of chinese politicalculture in the modernand contemporary periods; chapter seven; the collapse of empires of moderntimes on the historical backgroundof the collapse of ancient rome; defining imperialism; fichte and the nation-state; international models of catalannationalism (1882-1914). |
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The caucasus in the geopoliticalcoordinate systemexternal shocks, international statusand the change of regime in the japanof the meiji restoration; marxist intellectuals' debateon the national question; indian postcolonial scholars'thoughts on nation and nationalism; the "return of the past"; "why get angry about losingjust a territory?"; manifest destiny; revolutions and geopoliticaltransformations; states, nations and regionalismin the perspective of the europeanintegration process; chapter eight; georgian self-determinationin the eighteenth century(saints and collective memory). |
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The reception of italy and the Italianrisorgimento in the public conscienceof the romanian ecclesiasticalintellectuals from transylvania. |
| Summary |
This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project ""Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century"", during which scholars from all over the world-academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates-confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. ... |
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History, Modern.
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History, Modern. |
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State, The -- History.
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State, The. |
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History. |
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World history.
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World politics.
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World history. |
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World politics. |
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HISTORY -- World. |
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History.
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Motta, Giovanna, editor.
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Biagini, Antonello, editor.
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Print version: Motta, Giovanna. Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: Volume 1. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443859134 |
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9781443861939 (electronic book) |
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1443861936 (electronic book) |
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1306948428 |
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9781306948425 |
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9781443859134 |
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1443859133 |
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