Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I: The Spanish Empire in the Americas
Chapter 3 The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821
Chapter 4 The Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture: "The Public" and "the Private" in the Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, 1750-1850
Chapter 5 Selfhood and Nationhood in Latin America: From Colonial Subject to Democratic Citizen
Part 6 Part II: The Middle East and Eastern Europe
Chapter 7 Empires as Prisons of Nations versus Empires as Political Opportunity Structures: An Exploration of the Role of Nationalism in Imperial Dissolutions in Europe
Chapter 8 Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Decline
Chapter 9 Dreams of Empire, Dreams of Nations
Part 10 Part III: The Chinese Empire
Chapter 11 How the Qing Became China
Chapter 12 Going Imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Nationalisms in China and Inner Asia
Part 13 Part IV: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Chapter 14 The Long Road from Empire: Legacies of Nation-Building in the Soviet Successor States
Chapter 15 Setting the Political Agenda:Cultural Discourse in the Estonian Transition
Part 16 Afterword: The Return of Empire?