The Civic and the Tribal State: The State, Ethnicity, and the Multiethnic State

by Feliks Gross

The primordial bonds of early societies--common ancestry or tribal bonds and territorial or neighborhood bonds--are at the root of early political organization. States based on common tribal or ethnic identity have tended to develop into highly nationalistic states. The civic state, based upon territory, appeared in embryonic form in Athens. It was Rome, however, that made the complete transition, creating a civic state based on an association...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313291454
• ISBN13: 9780313291456
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"