Description
Book SynopsisHall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic identity movements.
Trade ReviewHall's work provides an important link between international-relations theory and nationalism scholarship. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part I. Collective Identity and International Relations Theory 1. International Relations Without Nations? 2. Social Identities and Social System 3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern History Part II. Territorial-Sovereign Identity 4. Raison d'Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism 5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years' War Part III. National-Sovereign Identity 6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction 7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich 8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture 9. "Over-the-Top" and "Over There": Status Contests Among National-Sovereigns Part IV. Conclusions and Implications 10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism
