Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building

Introduction: Paths to Early Modernities-A Comparative View; Early Modernities: Varieties and Transitions; India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000-1500; Hearing Voices: Vignettes of Early Modernity in South Asia, 1400-1750; Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan; Public Life in Authoritarian Japan; Boundaries of the Public Sphere in Ming and Qing China; Territorial Order and Collective-Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea; Cosmopolitans, Patriots, Jacobins, and Romantics; State and Public Sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime