This book examines the transformation of scholars into scholar-bureaucrats and discusses ideology, law and administration in the Ottoman Empire.

At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Now

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power

The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.

The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center th