Nation, State and the Economy in History

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 5/27/2011
EAN 9780521283137, ISBN10: 0521283132

Paperback, 468 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Language: English

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.

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 François Crouzet
3. Nation building in Germany
the economic dimension Gerd Hardach
4. The harmony liberal era 1845–1880
the case of Norway and Sweden Göran 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 Nùñez 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 Bruckmüller and Roman Sandgruber
9. The economy and the rise and fall of a small multinational state
Czechoslovakia, 1918–92 Václav 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.