Empire to Nation

Joseph W. Esherick is professor of history and Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Hasan Kayali is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. Eric Van Young is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: The Spanish Empire in the AmericasChapter 3 The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821Chapter 4 The Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture: "The Public" and "the Private" in the Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, 1750-1850Chapter 5 Selfhood and Nationhood in Latin America: From Colonial Subject to Democratic CitizenPart 6 Part II: The Middle East and Eastern EuropeChapter 7 Empires as Prisons of Nations versus Empires as Political Opportunity Structures: An Exploration of the Role of Nationalism in Imperial Dissolutions in EuropeChapter 8 Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg DeclineChapter 9 Dreams of Empire, Dreams of NationsPart 10 Part III: The Chinese EmpireChapter 11 How the Qing Became ChinaChapter 12 Going Imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Nationalisms in China and Inner AsiaPart 13 Part IV: The Russian Empire and the Soviet UnionChapter 14 The Long Road from Empire: Legacies of Nation-Building in the Soviet Successor StatesChapter 15 Setting the Political Agenda:Cultural Discourse in the Estonian TransitionPart 16 Afterword: The Return of Empire?

As this excellent collection shows, imperial collapses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe (including the dissolution of the Soviet Union), Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia have often left conflict-ridden legacies. Anyone interested in the forces that have shaped much of the modern world, and in many of today's major foreign policy issues, should read this book.