Description: Rethinking the End of Empire : Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics, Hardcover by Tesser, Lynn M., ISBN 1503638103, ISBN-13 9781503638105, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new states? The answer has customarily centered on the actions of "nationalists" against weakening empires during a time of proliferating beliefs that "peoples" should control their own destiny. This book upends conventional wisdom by demonstrating that nationalism often existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local activists and insurgents. Lynn M. Tesser adds nuance to scholarship that assumes most, if not all, pre-independence unrest was nationalist and separatist, and sheds light on why the various demands for change eventually coalesced around independence in some cases but not others.
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Book Title: Rethinking the End of Empire : Nationalism, State Formation, and
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Publication Name: Rethinking the End of Empire : Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: International Relations / General, General, Comparative Politics, World
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lynn M. Tesser
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
