This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century, during which scholars from all over the world - academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates - confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts...

This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century, during which scholars from all over the world - academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates - confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts...

The volumes are the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century, during which scholars from all over the world-academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates-confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts...

This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the Mlada Bosna, Gavrilo Princip, lit the fuse and ignited the conflict which was to forever change the world. The Great War--initially on a European and then on a world scale--demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great...

This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the Mlada Bosna, Gavrilo Princip, lit the fuse and ignited the conflict which was to forever change the world. The Great War--initially on a European and then on a world scale--demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great...