• Introduction Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis; Part I: 1. Political structures and grand strategies for the growth of the British economy, 1688–1815 Patrick K. O'Brien; 2. Economic factors and the building of the French nation state François Crouzet; 3. Nation building in Germany: the economic dimension Gerd Hardach; 4. The harmony liberal era 1845–1880: the case of Norway and Sweden Göran B. Nilsson; 5. Nationalism in the epoch of organised capitalism: Norway and Sweden choosing different paths Francis Sejersted; 6. Economic development and the problems of the national state formation: the case of Spain Clara Eugenia Nùñez and Gabriel Tortella; Part II: 7. The state and economic development in Central and Eastern Europe David F. Good; 8. Concepts of economic integration in Austria during the twentieth century Ernst Bruckmüller and Roman Sandgruber; 9. The economy and the rise and fall of a small multinational state: Czechoslovakia, 1918–92 Václav Prucha; 10. Economic retardation, peasant farming and the nation state in the Balkans: Serbia, 1815–1912 and 1991–9 Michael Palairet; 11. National and non-national dimensions of economic development in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia Peter Gatrell and Boris Anan'ich; Part III: 12. Nation without a state and state without a nation: the case of Africa south of the Sahara Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; 13. The economic foundation of the nation state in Senegal Ibrahima Thioub; 14. From the Jewish national home to the state of Israel: some economic aspects of nation and state building Jacob Metzer; Part IV: 15. Economic change and the formation of states and nations in South Asia 1919–47: India and Pakistan B. R. Tomlinson; 16. State transformation, reforms and economic performance in China, 1840–1910 Kent G. Deng; 17. Japan's unstable course during her remarkable economic development Hidemasa Morikawa; Part V: 18. The state and economic growth in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Carlos Marichal and Steven Topik; 19. Building the Brazilian nation state: from colony to globalisation Domingos A. Giroletti; 20. The role of nationhood in the economic development of the USA Gavin Wright; 21. Economic policy and Australian state building: from labourist protectionism to globalisation Christopher Lloyd.

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