Nation, State and the Economy in HistoryAlice Teichova, Herbert Matis 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. |
Contents
Political structures and grand strategies for the growth of | 11 |
Economic factors and the building of the French | 34 |
the economic dimension | 56 |
the case of Norway | 80 |
Nationalism in the epoch of organised capitalism Norway | 96 |
Economic development and the problems of national | 113 |
Concepts of economic integration in Austria during | 159 |
The economy and the rise and fall of a small multinational | 181 |
The economic foundation of the nationstate in Senegal | 251 |
some | 270 |
Economic change and the formation of states and nations | 291 |
State transformation reforms and economic performance | 308 |
Japans unstable course during its remarkable economic | 332 |
Brazil | 349 |
from colony | 373 |
the USA | 387 |
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