CONTENTS // Note on Names and Places // List of Maps and Illustrations // Introduction // 1. The Accidental Empire // 2. Servants and Citizens, Empire and Fatherland, 1780-1815 // 3. An Empire of Contradictions, 1815-1848 // 4. Whose Empire? The Revolutions of 1848-1849 // 5. Mid-Century Modern: The Emergence of a Liberal Empire // 6. Culture Wars and Wars for Culture // 7. Everyday Empire, Our Empire, 1880-1914 // 8. War and Radical State-Building, 1914-1925 // Epilogue: The New Empires // Notes // Acknowledgments // Index