Empires and Nations in the Modern World

Shifting Political Orders

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ID13075089
AuthorsPatrick Manning (0000-0002-5719-8383, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume10
Issue1
Pages1-32
Publication date2022-01-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Asian review of World Histories (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2287-965X • E-ISSN: 2287-9811
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22879811-12340102
OpenAlexW4206108653
LanguageEN
References cited18

This essay traces the path of empires and nations as forms of governance, the eventual predominance of nations and disappearance of empires, and the contemporary interplay of large and small nations as the dominant form of global governance. It also gives attention to the rise of capitalist economic organization as a factor expanding empires and later encouraging nationhood. The essay emphasizes two stages in the emergence of nations: the emergence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of nations and eventually of the great powers, and the post-1945 emergence of nations as the universal form of government, consisting mostly of small powers, linked by the United Nations

Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy

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