Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century : Volume 1.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter One -- Living at the Crossroads of Empires -- From the Balkans to the Habsburg Empire -- In Search of a New Political Project -- Legitimacy and Innovation in the Chinese Imperial Tradition as Seen by the Jesuits -- Chapter Two -- The Crisis of the Ottoman Empire Seen by Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italians -- The Tanzimat and the Struggle of Non-Muslim Minorities for Citizenship -- Becoming a Turk -- Myth or Reality -- An Anti-Nationalistic Dream -- Chapter Three -- An Italian Diplomat between East and West -- The Russian Secret Mission in the Vatican between 1887 and 1906 -- The Strengthening of the Political Power of the Russian Empire in the Steppe Area of the North Caucasus Region in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century -- Part II -- Chapter Four -- From the Creation of National Identities to the Interethnic Conflict -- The Austro-Hungarian Language Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Orientals among the People of the East -- Chapter Five -- From "Millet" to "Nations" and/or "Minorities" -- The Historical Genesis of the 1919 Minority Treaties -- Social Inclusion and Identity Strategies -- The Russian Language among Hungarians in the Transcarpathian Region (Ukraine) -- Part III -- Chapter Six -- Vittorio Alfieri's Pazzi Conspiracy and Don Garcia -- Nations and National Minorities in the Light of Pasquils -- Conceptualizing the Georgian Nation within the Romanov Empire -- "The Amazonian Idol" -- Oriental Exoticism in the Serbian Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Serbian Elite and the Issue of Development of National Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Montenegro through the Lens of the Marubi Atelier -- From Pittsburgh to Marosvécs -- Byzantine Tradition in East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century -- Avant-Gardism or Cult of the Past?.

Shifting Balkanization from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day -- Headsman, Specters and Monsters -- A Brief Analysis of Chinese Political Culture in the Modern and Contemporary Periods -- Chapter Seven -- The Collapse of Empires of Modern Times on the Historical Background of the Collapse of Ancient Rome -- Defining Imperialism -- Fichte and the Nation-State -- International Models of Catalan Nationalism (1882-1914) -- The Caucasus in the Geopolitical Coordinate System -- External Shocks, International Status and the Change of Regime in the Japan of the Meiji Restoration -- Marxist Intellectuals' Debate on the National Question -- Indian Postcolonial Scholars' Thoughts on Nation and Nationalism -- The "Return of the Past" -- "Why Get Angry about Losing Just a Territory?" -- Manifest Destiny -- Revolutions and Geopolitical Transformations -- States, Nations and Regionalism in the Perspective of the European Integration Process -- Chapter Eight -- Georgian Self-Determination in the Eighteenth Century -- The Reception of Italy and the Italian Risorgimento in the Public Conscience of the Romanian Ecclesiastical Intellectuals from Transylvania -- Catholicism and the Idea of Nation in the Italian Risorgimento in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Religion in the Post-Imperial State -- Chapter Nine -- The Marriage Policy of Napoleon Bonaparte -- The Sección Femenina in the Spanish Sahara -- The Comfort Women.

This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project "Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century", during which scholars from all over the world - academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates - confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts such as identity, nationality, and sovereignty analyzed. The first part of this work is dedicated to the analysis of the origins of nation-states in the context of the multinational Habsburg, Ottoman and Tsarist empires, while the second pays particular attention to the issue of national minorities, which followed the dissolution of the great empires. The third part is related to national identity and focuses on art and culture by presenting artists, painters, writers and intellectuals who had played key roles in the formation of their national identities. Such pioneers include Hungarians, Romanians, Serbs, Georgians, Chinese, and Brazilians. Specific sections are dedicated to theoretical approaches and concepts such as imperialism, geopolitics, nationality, and regionalism, and to the analysis of religious and gender issues.

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