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The nation state and beyond : governing globalization processes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Isabella Löhr, Roland Wenzlhuemer, editors.

Title
The nation state and beyond : governing globalization processes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Isabella Löhr, Roland Wenzlhuemer, editors.
Publication
Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Löhr, Isabella.
  • Wenzlhuemer, Roland.
Description
ix, 260 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
This book show that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements allows its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes, and plays various and at times even contradictory roles.
Series Statement
Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
Uniform Title
Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.
Subject
  • Globalization > Economic aspects
  • Globalization > History > 19th century
  • Globalization > History > 20th century
  • Nation-state
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Economies -- The "Forces Profondes" of Internationalism in the Late Nineteenth Century: Politics, Economy and Culture / Guido Thiemeyer -- "They Already Exist": Don't They? Conjuring Global Networks Along the Flow of Money / Madeleine Herren -- Technologies -- Institutionalised Co-operation on International Communication: The International Administrative Unions as a Means of Governing Globalisation Processes / Norman Weiß -- "A Most Powerful Instrument for a Despot": The Telegraph as a Trans-national Instrument of Imperial Control and Political Mobilization in the Middle East / E. Thomas Ewing -- Working the Nation State: Submarine Cable Actors, Cable Transnationalism and the Governance of the Global Media System, 1858-1914 / Simone Müller-Pohl -- Education -- National and Transnational Spaces: Academic Networks and Scholarly Transfer Between Britain and Germany in the Nineteenth Century / Heather Ellis -- Appropriation, Representation and Cooperation as Transnational Practices: The Example of Ferdinand Buisson / Klaus Dittrich -- Borders -- The Nation-State/Empire as a Unit of Analysis in the History of International Relations: A Case Study in Northeast Asia, 1868-1933 / Tomoko Akami -- On the Civilizing Mission of the Global Economy: German Observers of the Colonization and Development of Siberia, 1900-1918 / James Casteel -- Nationalism and the Catholic Church: Papal Politics and 'Nationalist' Clergy in Border Regions (1918-1939) / Thies Schulze.
ISBN
  • 9783642329333 (pbk.)
  • 3642329330 (pbk.)