Frontmatter -- 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