Nation, state and the economy in history

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Nation, state and the economy in history

edited by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Originally published in 2003, this book addresses the rarely explored subject of the reciprocal relationships between nationalism, nation and state-building, and economic change. Analysis of the economic element in the building of nations and states cannot be confined to Europe, and therefore these diverse yet interlinked case-studies cover all continents. Authors come to contrasting conclusions, some regarding the economic factor as central, while others show that nation-states came into being before the constitution of a national market. The essays leave no doubt that the nation-state is an historical phenonemon and as such is liable to 'expiry' both through the process of globalisation and through the development of a 'cyber-society' which evades state control. By contrast, developments in southeastern Europe, the former USSR, and parts of Africa and the Far East show that building the nation-state has not run its course.

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  • Introduction Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis
  • Part I: 1. Political structures and grand strategies for the growth of the British economy, 1688-1815 Patrick K. O'Brien
  • 2. Economic factors and the building of the French nation state Francois Crouzet
  • 3. Nation building in Germany: the economic dimension Gerd Hardach
  • 4. The harmony liberal era 1845-1880: the case of Norway and Sweden Goeran B. Nilsson
  • 5. Nationalism in the epoch of organised capitalism: Norway and Sweden choosing different paths Francis Sejersted
  • 6. Economic development and the problems of the national state formation: the case of Spain Clara Eugenia Nunez and Gabriel Tortella
  • Part II: 7. The state and economic development in Central and Eastern Europe David F. Good
  • 8. Concepts of economic integration in Austria during the twentieth century Ernst Bruckmuller and Roman Sandgruber
  • 9. The economy and the rise and fall of a small multinational state: Czechoslovakia, 1918-92 Vaclav Prucha
  • 10. Economic retardation, peasant farming and the nation state in the Balkans: Serbia, 1815-1912 and 1991-9 Michael Palairet
  • 11. National and non-national dimensions of economic development in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia Peter Gatrell and Boris Anan'ich
  • Part III: 12. Nation without a state and state without a nation: the case of Africa south of the Sahara Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
  • 13. The economic foundation of the nation state in Senegal Ibrahima Thioub
  • 14. From the Jewish national home to the state of Israel: some economic aspects of nation and state building Jacob Metzer
  • Part IV: 15. Economic change and the formation of states and nations in South Asia 1919-47: India and Pakistan B. R. Tomlinson
  • 16. State transformation, reforms and economic performance in China, 1840-1910 Kent G. Deng
  • 17. Japan's unstable course during her remarkable economic development Hidemasa Morikawa
  • Part V: 18. The state and economic growth in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Carlos Marichal and Steven Topik
  • 19. Building the Brazilian nation state: from colony to globalisation Domingos A. Giroletti
  • 20. The role of nationhood in the economic development of the USA Gavin Wright
  • 21. Economic policy and Australian state building: from labourist protectionism to globalisation Christopher Lloyd.

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