Citizenship and ethnicity : the growth and development of a democratic multiethnic institution / Feliks Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Feliks, 1906-

Series:

Contributions in sociology ; no. 128.

Contributions in sociology, 0084-9278 ; no. 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities.

State, The.

Ethnic relations.

Citizenship.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today, all industrialized states are multinational. However, as Political Sociologist Feliks Gross points out, there remains considerable debate and experimentation on how to organize a multiethnic, democratic, and humane state. Gross examines various types of multiethnic states as well as their early origins and prospects for success. In the past, minorities were usually formed as a consequence of conquest or migration; minorities tended to have an inferior status, subordinated to the ruling, dominant ethnic class. While Athens provides an early example of a state formed by alliance and association, the Romans advanced this concept when they extended to subjected peoples the status by means of citizenship. After the fall of Rome, citizenship continued in Italian and other continental cities. In England, subjectship associated with individual freedom had native roots. The American and French Revolutions revived and created the modern definition of citizenship. Along with Rome, however, only the United States provides an example of a successful multiethnic state of continental dimensions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138) and index.

ISBN:

9798400626616

9780313003691

0313003696

OCLC:

609348533