This volume takes on the challenge of understanding nationhood and nationalism's relationships with global phenomena such as imperialism and universalistic religions.

Part I. Imperial and Post-Colonial Settings: 1. Building nation-empires in the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic Fidel J. Tavárez; 2. Nations and nationalisms in the late Ottoman empire Ebru Boyar; 3. The Dutch empire Michael Wintle; 4. The Habsburg monarchy Bálint Varga; 5. The British empire Krishan Kumar; 6. The French empire Eric T. Jennings; 7. Germany as a 'Global nation':1840-1930 Mark Hewitson; 8. The Russian and Soviet empire Ronald Grigor Suny and Valerie A. Kivelson; 9. The Japanese empire Sherzod Muminov; 10. American internationalism Andrew Preston; 11. The Indian subcontinent: From Raj to partition Swarupa Gupta; 12. Middle Eastern and North African nationalisms Jonathan D. Wyrtzen; 13. Sub-saharan Africa Emma Hunter; 14. Bringing empires back in: The imperial origins of nations in Indochina Tuong Vu; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities: 15. Liberalism and nationalism: Trajectories of an entangled relationship Jörn Leonhard; 16. Marxism and the national question Enzo Traverso; 17. The Catholic Church Lawrence C. Reardon; 18. Islam and nationalism John O. Voll; 19. On Jewish nationhood and nationalism: A Historical survey from antiquity to the establishment of the state of Israel Allon Gal; 20. Buddhism Matthew J. Walton; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Intersections: National(Ist) Synergies and Tensions With Other Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Categories, Identities and Practices: 21. Self-determination and national sovereignty Alain Dieckhoff; 22. Citizenship and nationhood: From antiquity to Gaia citizenship Daniele Conversi; 23. Religion and nationhood Peter van der Veer; 24. Nationalism and capitalism Jerry Z. Muller; 25. Economic nationalism in an imperial age, 1846-1946 Marc-William Palen; 26. National identity and the idea of race in the dinaric region Cathie Carmichael; 27. Nationalism, Ethnic cleansing and genocide: A view from below Omer Bartov; 28. Warfare, nation-formation and the legitimacy of states: An ethno-symbolic perspective John Hutchinson; 29. Nationalism, terrorism, and the state: Historical perspectives Bernhard Blumenau; 30. Negotiating national identity through tourism in colonial south asia and beyond Eric G. E. Zuelow; 31. Gendered nations and institutions Joane Nagel; 32. Historiographies and commemorative practices Stefan Berger; 33. Nation and literature Theo D'haen; 34. Food ways and nationhood Peter Scholliers; 35. The dynamics of national music: Opera and classical music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rutger Helmers; 36. Media and nationalism: Europe and the US, 1500-2000 Frank Bösch; Conclusion to Part III; Index.