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Europas Großreiche waren geprägt von ethnischer Differenz und räumlicher Vielfalt. Gerade diese Pluralität galt lange als Ursache für Scheitern und Zerfall. Empires prägten die Geschichte Europas jedoch viel länger und stärker als die jungen Nationalstaaten, die unsere Vorstellung von Europa bis heute bestimmen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes vergleichen systematisch vier europäische Empires im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: das Britische Empire, die Habsburgermonarchie, Russland und das Osmanische Reich. Wie spannungsreich die Beziehungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie sowie zwischen Herrschern und Beherrschten waren, wird am Beispiel von Infrastrukturen, Konflikten und Kriegserfahrungen ebenso deutlich wie anhand der Praxis von Monarchie und Religion.

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Aus dem Inhalt:
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

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