Nation, state, and the economy in history / / edited by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450507703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-12998-2; 1-280-16038-1; 1-139-14688-2; 0-511-11911-9; 0-511-06308-3; 0-511-05675-3; 0-511-30564-8; 0-511-49757-1; 0-511-07154-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 450 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 330.9
• Soggetti: Economic history; Nationalism - Economic aspects; Nation-state
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Political structures and grand strategies for the growth of the British economy, 1688-1815 / Patrick K. O'Brien -- Economic factors and the building of the French nation state / François Crouzet -- Nation building in Germany: the economic dimension / Gerd Hardach -- The harmony liberal era 1845-1880: the case of Norway and Sweden / Göran B. Nilsson -- Nationalism in the epoch of organised capitalism: Norway and Sweden choosing different paths / Francis Sejersted -- Economic development and the problems of the national state formation: the case of Spain / Clara Eugenia Núñez and Gabriel Tortella -- The state and economic development in Central and Eastern Europe / David F. Good -- Concepts of economic integration in Austria during the twentieth century / Ernst Bruckmüller and Roman Sandgruber -- ; The economy and the rise and fall of a small multinational state: Czechoslovakia, 1918-1992 / Václav Průcha -- Economic retardation, peasant farming and the nation state in the Balkans: Serbia, 1815-1912 and 1991-1999 / Michael Palairet -- National and non-national dimensions of economic development in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia / Peter Gatrell and Boris Anan'ich -- Nation without a state and state without a nation: the case of Africa south of the Sahara / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The economic foundation of the nation state in Senegal / Ibrahima Thioub -- From the Jewish national home to the state of Israel: some economic aspects of nation and state building / Jacob Metzer -- Economic change and the formation of states and nations in South Asia 1919-1947: India and Pakistan / B.R. Tomlinson -- State transformation, reforms and economic performance in China, 1840-1910 / Kent G. Deng -- Japan's unstable course during her remarkable economic development / Hidemasa Morikawa -- The state and economic growth in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Carlos Marichal and Steven Topik -- Building the Brazilian nation state: from colony to globalisation / Domingos A. Giroletti -- The role of nationhood in the economic development of the USA / Gavin Wright -- Economic policy and Australian state building: from labourist protectionism to globalisation / Christopher Lloyd.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.