The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context)

The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against equating the history of globalization processes and transcultural entanglements with the master narrative of the gradual homogenization of the world. Examining the shifting patterns of global connections has, therefore, become the main challenge for all those who seek to understand the past, the present and the future of modern societies. And this challenge includes finding a place for the nation state. The studies presented here argue that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements opens the door for its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes and plays various and at times even contradictory roles at the same time. This Book Show That Looking At The Nation State From The Perspective Of Global Entanglements Allows Its Interpretation As A Dynamic And Multi-layered Structure That Takes Part In Globalization Processes, And Plays Various And At Times Even Contradictory Roles. Economies -- The Forces Profondes Of Internationalism In The Late Nineteenth Century: Politics, Economy And Culture / Guido Thiemeyer -- They Already Exist: Don't They? Conjuring Global Networks Along The Flow Of Money / Madeleine Herren -- Technologies -- Institutionalised Co-operation On International Communication: The International Administrative Unions As A Means Of Governing Globalisation Processes / Norman Weiß -- A Most Powerful Instrument For A Despot: The Telegraph As A Trans-national Instrument Of Imperial Control And Political Mobilization In The Middle East / E. Thomas Ewing -- Working The Nation State: Submarine Cable Actors, Cable Transnationalism And The Governance Of The Global Media System, 1858-1914 / Simone Müller-pohl -- Education -- National And Transnational Spaces: Academic Networks And Scholarly Transfer Between Britain And Germany In The Nineteenth Century / Heather Ellis -- Appropriation, Representation And Cooperation As Transnational Practices: The Example Of Ferdinand Buisson / Klaus Dittrich -- Borders -- The Nation-state/empire As A Unit Of Analysis In The History Of International Relations: A Case Study In Northeast Asia, 1868-1933 / Tomoko Akami -- On The Civilizing Mission Of The Global Economy: German Observers Of The Colonization And Development Of Siberia, 1900-1918 / James Casteel -- Nationalism And The Catholic Church: Papal Politics And 'nationalist' Clergy In Border Regions (1918-1939) / Thies Schulze. Isabella Löhr, Roland Wenzlhuemer, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: The Nation State and Beyond. Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries....Pages 1-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 The “ Forces Profondes ” of Internationalism in the Late Nineteenth Century: Politics, Economy and Culture....Pages 27-42 “They Already Exist”: Don’t They? Conjuring Global Networks Along the Flow of Money....Pages 43-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Institutionalised Co-operation on International Communication: The International Administrative Unions as a Means of Governing Globalisation Processes....Pages 65-82 “A Most Powerful Instrument for a Despot”: The Telegraph as a Trans-national Instrument of Imperial Control and Political Mobilization in the Middle East....Pages 83-100 Working the Nation State: Submarine Cable Actors, Cable Transnationalism and the Governance of the Global Media System, 1858–1914....Pages 101-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 National and Transnational Spaces: Academic Networks and Scholarly Transfer Between Britain and Germany in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 127-148 Appropriation, Representation and Cooperation as Transnational Practices: The Example of Ferdinand Buisson....Pages 149-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 The Nation-State/Empire as a Unit of Analysis in the History of International Relations: A Case Study in Northeast Asia, 1868–1933....Pages 177-208 On the Civilizing Mission of the Global Economy: German Observers of the Colonization and Development of Siberia, 1900–1918....Pages 209-233 Nationalism and the Catholic Church: Papal Politics and ‘Nationalist’ Clergy in Border Regions (1918–1939)....Pages 235-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-260