People, Nation and State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism

by Edward Mortimer and Robert Fine

While conflicts of class, ideology and political systems have receded in the post-Cold War world, divisions based on group identity - cultural, ethnic, religious, and national - have assumed new importance. From Bosnia to Belfast and Burundi, from California to Kosovo, the difficulty of defining and reconciling group identities, and of relating them to state structures, has become one of the central problems of our time. Nations in the developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860644015
• ISBN13: 9781860644016
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"