1st Edition
Modernism The Creation of Nation-States
496 Pages
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Central European University Press
This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the modern successors of former empires. They exemplify the use modernist ideological framaeworks, from liberalism to socialism, in the context of the fundamental reconfiguration of the political system in this part of Europe between the 1860s and the 1930s. It also gives a panorama of the various solutions... Read more
Introduction, Chapter I. Making of the modern state in a multi-national context, Chapter II. Self-determination, democratization, and the homogenizing state, Chapter III. “National projects” and their regional framework, Chapter IV. Federalism and the decline of the empires, Chapter V. Socialism and the nationality question
Biography
Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.
Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
