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WiSe 23/24: Empires & the Rise of Nations

Theocharis Grigoriadis

Information for students

On 08.01.2024 the course will take place in room 013 in Thielallee 73.

Comments

Empires and the Rise of Nations is a course on economics and history with focus on imperial formations and nation-building in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The first part of the course will focus on the economic organization and nationalities structures of the Russian, Ottoman, German and Habsburg Empires as well as their socialist equivalents such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, while providing an overview of theories of nationalism and nation-building. The second part of the course will concentrate on comparative cases from Eastern Europe and the Middle East by combining economic, historical and social science advances in the literature and setting the ground for innovating thinking in the contemporary and historical political economy of nationalism. The third part of the course will present the main debates that emerge from the first two parts and will be taken over by students. close

Suggested reading

1. De Waal, Thomas. The Caucasus: an introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. 2. Friedman, Francine. Bosnia and Herzegovina: A polity on the brink. Routledge, 2013. 3. Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism, New York: Cornell University Press, 2009. 4. Gregory, Paul. The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 5. Harrison, Mark (Ed.). Guns and Rubles: the Defense Industry in the Stalinist State. Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War. Yale University Press, 2008. 6. Kuran, Timur. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2011. 7. Martin, Terry. The affirmative action empire: nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Cornell University Press, 2001. 8. Plokhy, Serhii. The Russo-Ukrainian war: the return of history, Norton & Norton, 2023. 9. Roland, Gérard. Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms. MIT Press, 2004. 10. Safieddine, Hicham. Banking on the state: The financial foundations of Lebanon. Stanford University Press, 2019. 11. Snyder, Timothy. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999. Yale University Press, 2002. 12. ---. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. Crown, 2018. close