Comparing Empires

ISBN 10: 3525310404 / ISBN 13: 9783525310403

Published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, 2011

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Zustandsbeschreibung: leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear. Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen. The 28 contributions to this volume systematically compare four European empires of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Examples are given to show the tension that existed in the relationships between the central and the peripheral areas as well as between the rulers and those they ruled over. The infrastructure, political conflicts and war experiences are demonstrated in the everyday practice of monarchy and religion. 556 Seiten mit 19 Abb., gebunden (Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History; Vol. 1/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011). Statt EUR 95,00. Gewicht: 1060 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comparing Empires
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3525310404
• ISBN 13: 9783525310403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Wie Neu
• Weight: 1060 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

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English summary: European Empires with their multi-ethnic societies have long been considered as failures, and their history was often presented as a narrative of mere disintegration and decay. With the ever dominating subject of nation-state formation receding, a new scope for considering empires as the much longer and pervasive alternative in European history opens up. Against this background, this volume contributes to a more systematic comparison of the ambivalent and changing relationships between centre and periphery, between colonizers and colonized in the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The spectrum of such relationships reaches from infrastructures and political conflicts to the practice of monarchy and religion and war experiences. A mere addition of case-studies is avoided by inter-relating the contributions on the basis of comparative comments by leading specialists in the respective fields. German text. German description: Europas Grossreiche waren gepragt von ethnischer Differenz und raumlicher Vielfalt. Gerade diese Pluralitat galt lange als Ursache fur Scheitern und Zerfall. Empires pragten die Geschichte Europas jedoch viel langer und starker als die jungen Nationalstaaten, die unsere Vorstellung von Europa bis heute bestimmen. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes vergleichen systematisch vier europaische Empires im 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhundert: das Britische Empire, die Habsburgermonarchie, Russland und das Osmanische Reich. Wie spannungsreich die Beziehungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie sowie zwischen Herrschern und Beherrschten waren, wird am Beispiel von Infrastrukturen, Konflikten und Kriegserfahrungen ebenso deutlich wie anhand der Praxis von Monarchie und Religion.