Rethinking the End of Empire

Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics

Lynn M. Tesser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3889-1 (ISBN)

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Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new states? The answer has customarily centered on the actions of "nationalists" against weakening empires during a time of proliferating beliefs that "peoples" should control their own destiny. This book upends conventional wisdom by demonstrating that nationalism often existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local activists and insurgents. Lynn M. Tesser adds nuance to scholarship that assumes most, if not all, pre-independence unrest was nationalist and separatist, and sheds light on why the various demands for change eventually coalesced around independence in some cases but not others.

Lynn M. Tesser teaches international relations at the Marine Corps University and is the author of Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union (2013).

Preface

INTRODUCTION

One THE AMERICAS

Two GREECE

Three THE BALKANS AND ANATOLIA

Four CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Five ASIA AND AFRICA

CONCLUSION

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5036-3889-8 / 1503638898
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3889-1 / 9781503638891
Zustand	Neuware