CIAO DATE: 2/99

National Collective Identity
Social Constructs and International Systems

Rodney Bruce Hall

Columbia University Press

1999

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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I: Collective Identity and International Relations Theory

1. International Relations Without Nations?

2. Social Identities and Social Systems

3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern History

Part II: Territorial-Sovereign Identity

4. Raison d’Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism

5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years’ War

Part III: National-Sovereign Identity

6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction

7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich

8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture

9. “Over-the-Top” and “Over There”: Status Contests Among National-Sovereigns

Part IV: Conclusions and Implications

10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism

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