Benno Gammerl is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development’s Center for the History of Emotions. He has published widely on imperial history, on the historicity of feelings, and on the contemporary history of homosexuality in Germany.

• List of IllustrationsList of Maps, Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Nation-States Emerging on the Semi-PeripheryChapter 2. Statist ApproachesChapter 3. Imperialist Discrimination in Colonial ContextsChapter 4. The United Kingdom between Nation, State and EmpireChapter 5. Empires and Ethnic HeterogeneityConclusionBibliographyIndex of Names and PlacesIndex of Subjects

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