Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts / edited by Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudolph, Joseph R. (Joseph Russell), 1942-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations--Political aspects--Encylopedias.

Ethnic relations.

Culture conflict--Encylopedias.

Culture conflict.

World politics--1995-2005--Encylopedias.

World politics.

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Contents:

Bolivia: Ethnicized Peasant Conflict / David W. Dent 1

Burma: The Karen Conflict / Martin Smith 9

Canada: The Nationalist Movement in Quebec / Saul Newman 27

Central Europe: The Romany, a Stateless Minority in a World of States / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 37

China: Ethnic Conflict in the World's Largest Multinational State / Katherine Palmer Kaup 47

Cyprus: Communal Conflict and the International System / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 55

Czechoslovakia: The Peaceful Breakup of a State / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 61

France: Ethnic Conflict and the Problem of Corsica / Sue Ellen Charlton 69

France: The "Foreigner" Issue / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 77

Germany: The Foreign Worker Issue / John S. Bendix 85

India: Ethnic Conflict and Nation-building in a Multiethnic State / Maya Chadda 93

Indonesia: The Struggle to Control East Timor / Stephen Zunes 101

Lebanon: Ethnic Conflict and the Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990 / Marie-Joelle Zahar 109

Malaysia: The Malay-Chinese Conflict / Amy L. Freedman 119

Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas / Richard Stahler-Sholk 127

Middle East: The Arab-Jewish Struggle for Palestine to 1948 / James A. Reilly 137

Middle East: The Kurds Struggle for "Kurdistan" / Michael M. Gunter 151

Middle East: The Palestinian Issue / Deborah J. Gerner 161

Nigeria: Ethnic Conflict in Multinational West Africa / James S. Wunsch 169

Rwanda: Hutu-Tutsi Conflict and Genocide in Central Africa / Stephen D. Wrage 183

Soviet Union: The Conflict in Chechnya / Robert Bruce Ware 191

Soviet Union: The Ethnic Conflicts in Georgia / Stuart J. Kaufman 199

Soviet Union: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict / Stuart J. Kaufman 207

Spain: Basque Nationalism and Conflict in Democratic Spain / Roland Vazquez 215

Sri Lanka: Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict in India's Backyard / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 225

Sudan: Ethnic Conflict in the Sudan / Ann Mosely Lesch 235

United Kingdom: The Making of British Race Relations / Anthony Mark Messina 243

United Kingdom: The Irish Question and the Partition of Ireland / Sean P. Duffy 251

United Kingdom: The Conflict in Ulster / Sean P. Duffy 259

United Kingdom: Scotland and Scottish Nationalism / Robert J. Thompson 269

United Kingdom: The Decline and Revival of Welsh Nationalism / Terrence C. Casey 277

United States: The Struggle for Survival and Equality of the First Americans / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 287

United States: Racial Violence in the United States: 1900-1919 / James N. Upton 299

United States: Race and the Civil Rights Struggle in Post-World War II America / Kevin J. Mumford 309

United States: The United States-Puerto Rico Relationship / Lynn-Darrell Bender 319

Western Sahara: Ethnic Conflict and the Twentieth Century's Last Colonial War / Stephen Zunes 329

Yugoslavia: Ethnic Conflict and the Meltdown in Kosovo / John C. Scharfen 337

Yugoslavia: The Deconstruction of a State and Birth of Bosnia / Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0313313814

OCLC:

49672701