Comparing Empires
Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century
2nd Edition
Published on 18. April 2012
Book
Hardback
556 pages
978-3-525-31040-3 (ISBN)
Description
The empires of Europe were characterized by their ethnic pluralism and diverse geographical backgrounds. This pluralism was long held to be the reason for the eventual failure and disintegration of Europe. Unlike today, the empires of the time had a more lasting influence on the history of Europe than did the individual nation states. The contributions to this volume systematically compare four European empires of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Examples are given to show the tension that existed in the relationships between the central and the peripheral areas as well as between the rulers and those they ruled over. The infrastructure, political conflicts and war experiences are demonstrated in the everyday practice of monarchy and religion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
19
19 Schaubilder
mit 19 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 23.7 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 4.3 cm
Weight
1055 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-525-31040-3 (9783525310403)
DOI
10.13109/9783525310403
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Persons
Editor
Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard ist Direktor der School of History am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Ulrike von Hirschhausen hat den Lehrstuhl für Europäische und Neueste Geschichte an der Universität Rostock inne.
Contributions
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk ist Professor für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Neuere Allgemeine Geschichte am Historischen Seminar der Universität Basel.
Ute Schneider ist Professorin für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Martin Schulze Wessel ist Professor für die Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas an der Universität München und leitet das Collegium Carolinum.
Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski ist Ordinarius für Islamwissenschaft an der Universität Basel und korrespondierendes Mitglied der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Dr. Martin Zückert ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Geschäftsführer des Collegium Carolinum, Forschungsinstitut für die Geschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei.
PD Dr. Ulrike von Hirschhausen lehrt Europäische Geschichte an der Universität Hamburg.
Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard ist Direktor der School of History am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Content
Introduction
1. Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Rostock) und Jörn Leonhard (Freiburg/Br.):
Beyond Rise, Decline and Fall - Comparing Multi-Ethnic Empires in the long Nineteenth Century
I. Exploring and mobilizing -
The challenge of imperial space
2. Valeska Huber:
Highway of the British Empire? The Suez Canal between Imperial Competition and Local Accommodation
3. Frithjof Benjamin Schenk:
Mastering Imperial Space? The Ambivalent Impact of Railway Building in Tsarist Russia
4. Marsha Siefert:
"Chingis-Khan with the Telegraph": Communications in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
5. Murat Özyüksel:
Integration and Control? Railway Building and the Stability of Rule in the Ottoman Empire
6. Karl Schlögel:
Commentary
II. Mapping and classifying -
Surveying composite states and multi-ethnic populations
7. Ulrike von Hirschhausen:
People that count: The Imperial Census in 19th and early 20th Century Europe and India
8. Thomas Guy:
Cartography and the Imperial Gaze: Projections of the British Quest for Hegemony in sub-Saharan Africa
9. Mehmet Hacisalihoglu:
Borders, Maps and Censuses: Politicization of Geography and Statistics in the Multi-Ethnic Ottoman Empire
10. Ute Schneider:
Commentary
III. Mediating and representing -
The Monarchy as an imperial instrument
11. Ulrike von Hirschhausen:
Representing monarchy as an imperial tool-kit: Great Britain and India in the 19th and early 20th century
12. Daniel Unowsky:
Dynastic Symbolism and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria
13. Richard Wortman:
The Tsar and Empire: Representation of the Monarchy and Symbolic Integration in Imperial Russia
14. Hakan Karateke:
The Ideal of the Ottoman Sultan in the Nineteenth Century
15. Peter Haslinger:
Commentary
IV. Believing and integrating -
Religion and education as media for imperial images
16. Benedict Stuchtey:
Mission and Cultural Civilization: Religion, Confession and the British Empire
17. Joachim von Puttkamer:
Ambiguities of Integration: Educational Infrastructures in the Habsburg Monarchy and Tsarist Russia
18. Martin Schulze Wessel:
Politics and Religion in two Empires: Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in Comparison
19. Azmi Özcan:
The Tradition of the Caliphate in the Ottoman Empire
20. Fikret Adanir:
Commentary
V. Ruling and bargaining -
Confronting conflicts within the empire
21. Jörn Leonhard:
"The British are always at war somewhere": Imperial Conflict Strategies during the Indian Mutiny and the South African War
22. Alice Freifeld:
Conflict and De-escalation: The Crisis of the Habsburg Monarchy 1848/49 and the "Ausgleich" of 1867 in Comparison
23. Alexei Miller:
The Romanov Empire and the Polish Uprisings of 1830-31 and 1863-64: A Diachronic Comparison
24. Maurus Reinkowski:
Between Imperial Idea and "Realpolitik": Reform Policy and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire
25. Jürgen Osterhammel:
Commentary
VI. Defending and fighting -
The experience of the First World War
26. Santanu Das:
"Heart and Soul with Britain"? - India, Empire and the Great War
27. Martin Zückert:
Imperial War in the Age of Nationalism: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War
28. Eric Lohr:
Core Nationalism: The Russian Empire in the First World War
29. Erik-Jan Zürcher:
Demographic Engineering, the Army and the End of the Ottoman Empire
30. Jörn Leonhard:
Commentary
1. Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Rostock) und Jörn Leonhard (Freiburg/Br.):
Beyond Rise, Decline and Fall - Comparing Multi-Ethnic Empires in the long Nineteenth Century
I. Exploring and mobilizing -
The challenge of imperial space
2. Valeska Huber:
Highway of the British Empire? The Suez Canal between Imperial Competition and Local Accommodation
3. Frithjof Benjamin Schenk:
Mastering Imperial Space? The Ambivalent Impact of Railway Building in Tsarist Russia
4. Marsha Siefert:
"Chingis-Khan with the Telegraph": Communications in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
5. Murat Özyüksel:
Integration and Control? Railway Building and the Stability of Rule in the Ottoman Empire
6. Karl Schlögel:
Commentary
II. Mapping and classifying -
Surveying composite states and multi-ethnic populations
7. Ulrike von Hirschhausen:
People that count: The Imperial Census in 19th and early 20th Century Europe and India
8. Thomas Guy:
Cartography and the Imperial Gaze: Projections of the British Quest for Hegemony in sub-Saharan Africa
9. Mehmet Hacisalihoglu:
Borders, Maps and Censuses: Politicization of Geography and Statistics in the Multi-Ethnic Ottoman Empire
10. Ute Schneider:
Commentary
III. Mediating and representing -
The Monarchy as an imperial instrument
11. Ulrike von Hirschhausen:
Representing monarchy as an imperial tool-kit: Great Britain and India in the 19th and early 20th century
12. Daniel Unowsky:
Dynastic Symbolism and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria
13. Richard Wortman:
The Tsar and Empire: Representation of the Monarchy and Symbolic Integration in Imperial Russia
14. Hakan Karateke:
The Ideal of the Ottoman Sultan in the Nineteenth Century
15. Peter Haslinger:
Commentary
IV. Believing and integrating -
Religion and education as media for imperial images
16. Benedict Stuchtey:
Mission and Cultural Civilization: Religion, Confession and the British Empire
17. Joachim von Puttkamer:
Ambiguities of Integration: Educational Infrastructures in the Habsburg Monarchy and Tsarist Russia
18. Martin Schulze Wessel:
Politics and Religion in two Empires: Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in Comparison
19. Azmi Özcan:
The Tradition of the Caliphate in the Ottoman Empire
20. Fikret Adanir:
Commentary
V. Ruling and bargaining -
Confronting conflicts within the empire
21. Jörn Leonhard:
"The British are always at war somewhere": Imperial Conflict Strategies during the Indian Mutiny and the South African War
22. Alice Freifeld:
Conflict and De-escalation: The Crisis of the Habsburg Monarchy 1848/49 and the "Ausgleich" of 1867 in Comparison
23. Alexei Miller:
The Romanov Empire and the Polish Uprisings of 1830-31 and 1863-64: A Diachronic Comparison
24. Maurus Reinkowski:
Between Imperial Idea and "Realpolitik": Reform Policy and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire
25. Jürgen Osterhammel:
Commentary
VI. Defending and fighting -
The experience of the First World War
26. Santanu Das:
"Heart and Soul with Britain"? - India, Empire and the Great War
27. Martin Zückert:
Imperial War in the Age of Nationalism: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War
28. Eric Lohr:
Core Nationalism: The Russian Empire in the First World War
29. Erik-Jan Zürcher:
Demographic Engineering, the Army and the End of the Ottoman Empire
30. Jörn Leonhard:
Commentary
The empires of Europe with their multiethnic societies have long been considered 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 und changing relationships between central and peripheral areas, between those who colonized and those who were colonized in the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The spectrum of such relationships ranges from infrastructure and political conflicts to the practice of monarchy between religion and war.>