A history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Vol. 1, Negotiating modernity in the ’Long Nineteenth Century’

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’
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Introduction
Part I: The Discovery of Modernity: Enlightened Statecraft, Discourses of Reform, and Civilizational Narratives
	1: The Politics of Improvement: European Models and Local Traditions
		1.1 Forging a new ``reason of state´´
		1.2 Legitimizing and reforming the estate system
		1.3 Patriotic allegiance and national mobilization
	2: National Projects and Civilizational Hierarchies
		2.1 Expansion of the ``public sphere´´
		2.2 Polishing the language: The emergence of vernacularism and its political subtext
		2.3 Ancient glory and stadial development: Enlightenment narratives of the past
		2.4 The rising interest in archaism and the problem of the ``internal other´´
	3: The Repercussions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
		3.1 Fascination and abhorrence
		3.2 The ``Historical Sublime´´ knocking at the back door: Napoleon and East Central Europe
		3.3 After 1815: Legitimism and the harbingers of Romantic nationalism
Part II: Spiritualizing Modernity: The Romantic Framework of Political Ideas
	4: ``Playing the Piano that does not yet have Strings´´? The Cultural-Political Programs of the ``National Revivals´´
		4.1 The long life of Enlightenment ideas
		4.2 The quest for emancipation
		4.3 ``Not dead, but sleepeth´´: Discourses of national awakening
		4.4 Ruins and resurrections: The search for suitable ancestors
		4.5 Between national and supranational loyalties
		4.6 From ``Missionism´´ to Messianism
	5: Political Visions of the Vormärz
		5.1 The emergence of the liberal nationalist project
		5.2 Moderates and radicals in the reform movement
		5.3 Critiques of national awakening
	6: Brotherhood and Disappointment: 1848 and its Aftermath
		6.1 Visions of revolutionary transformation
		6.2 The ``social issue´´ during the revolutions
		6.3 The clash of national aspirations
		6.4 Ideologists of the Counter-Revolution: Forward to the Past?
		6.5 The aftermath of the Revolution: Self-criticism and anti-absolutism
Part III: Institutionalizing Modernity: Conceptions of State-Building and Nation-Building in the Second Half of the Nineteen Century
	7: The Interplay of National and Imperial Principles of Organization
		7.1 Solving the riddle of the ``Eastern Question´´
		7.2 ``With you, Our Most Gracious Monarch, we stay and wish to stay´´: Ideologies of Compromise, Dualism, and Trialism
		7.3 The rise of pan-NATIONAL ideologies
	8: The Political Implications of Positivism
		8.1 The ``critical turns´´: Challenging the Romantic constructions
		8.2 Positivist historical narratives
		8.3 Studying the nation
		8.4 Overcoming backwardness: The discourses of ``national economy´´
	9: The Rise and Fall of ``National Liberalism´´ after 1848
		9.1 The paradigm shift of the liberal doctrine
		9.2 Liberalism and the ``Church Question´´
		9.3 The anti-liberal left
		9.4 The merger of ethnicism and conservatism: The emergence of political anti-Semitism
Part IV: Taming Modernity: The Fin de Siècle and the Rise of Mass Politics
	10: Liberals, Conservatives, and Mass Politics
		10.1 Responses to ``politics in a new key´´
		10.2 The limits of liberalism
		10.3 The new conservatives: Attempts at mobilization
		10.4 Fin-de-siècle religion and politics: Between modernism and neo-traditionalism
		10.5 The rise of integral nationalism
	11: The Left and the Ambiguity of the Marxist Package
		11.1 Civic radicalism: Intellectuals in search of a new identity
		11.2 Socialism and underdevelopment
		11.3 Agrarian populism: An East Central European local tradition?
		11.4 Anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists: Contesting evolutionary socialism
	12: Coping with Diversity
		12.1 Multiethnicity as a political issue
		12.2 Federalism as a solution to the nationality question
		12.3 Supranational theories and transnational movements
		12.4 The ``Jewish Question´´: The entanglement of assimilation, anti-Semitism, and Zionism
	13: The Faces of Modernity
		13.1 The modernization of historiography and the sociological gaze
		13.2 Individualism, decadence, and collective regeneration
		13.3 The ``Women´s Question´´ and feminism
	14: The Great War
		14.1 War aims and visions of the future
		14.2 Projects of regional reorganization
		14.3 National mobilization and social disintegration
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