General Information

Language

English.

Published

Göttingen ; Oakville, CT : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, c2011.

Physical Description

556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History ; v. 1.

Contributors

Contributor

Leonhard, Jörn.

Hirschhausen, Ulrike von, 1964-

Contents/Summary

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.

Subjects

Subject

Colonies > History > 19th century.

Imperialism > History > 19th century.

History, Modern > 19th century.

Europe > Colonies.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen.

Series

Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History ; v. 1

ISBN

9783525310403

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	909.81 LEO		OSA Repository	Donation of Alexei Miller.

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