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

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IntroductionI. The Discovery of Modernity: Enlightened Statecraft, Discourses of Reform, and Civilizational Narratives1: The Politics of Improvement: European Models and Local Traditions2: National Projects and Civilizational Hierarchies3: The Repercussions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic WarsII. Spiritualizing Modernity: The Romantic Framework of Political Ideas4: "Playing the Piano that Does Not Yet Have Strings?" The Cultural-Political Programs of the "National Revivals"5: Political Visions of the Vormarz6: Brotherhood and Disappointment: 1848 and its AftermathIII. Institutionalizing Modernity: Conceptions of State-Building and Nation-Building in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century7: The Interplay of National and Imperial Principles of Organization8: The Political Implications of Positivism9: The Rise and Fall of "National Liberalism" after 1848IV. Taming Modernity: The Fin de Siecle and the Rise of Mass Politics10: Liberals, Conservatives and Mass Politics11: The Left and the Ambiguity of the Marxist Package12: Coping with Diversity13: The Faces of Modernity14: The Great War