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Nationalist exclusion and ethnic conflict : shadows of modernity / Andreas Wimmer.
LIBRA JC312 .W56 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wimmer, Andreas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-state.
- Nationalism.
- Ethnic groups--Political activity.
- Ethnic groups.
- Immigrants--Political activity.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--Political activity.
- Minorities.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Argues that nationalist exclusion and ethnic conflict are characteristic of a modern society that is fragmented into nation states.
- Contents:
- 1 Shadows of modernity 1
- I Theoretical explorations
- 2 Compromise and closure: a theory of social dynamics 19
- 3 The making of modern communities 42
- II State-building and ethnic conflict
- 4 Who owns the state? Ethnic conflicts after the end of empires 85
- 5 Nationalism and ethnic mobilisation in Mexico 114
- 6 From empire to ethnocracy: Iraq since the Ottomans 156
- III The politics of exclusion in nationalised states
- 7 Racism and xenophobia 199
- 8 Nationalising multi-ethnic Switzerland 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521812550
- 052101185X
- OCLC:
- 48140316
- Online:
- Table of contents
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