Empire to Nation

The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. Here ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America the Middle East Eastern Europe Russia and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself.