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Product Description Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications. In these essays, which have appeared over the course of the last three decades, he argues that Western scholars and policymakers have almost invariably underrated the influence of ethnonationalism and misinterpreted its passionate and nonrational qualities. Several of the essays have become classics: together they represent a rigorous and stimulating attempt to establish a secure methodological foundation for the study of a complicated phenomenon increasingly, if belatedly, recognized as the major cause of global political instability. The book opens by reviewing a wide range of scholarship on ethnonationalism. Connor examines nineteenth-and early twentieth-century debate among British scholars on the viability and desirability of the multinational state, the American "nation-building" school of thought that dominated the literature on political development in the post-World War II era, and the recent explosion of literature on ethnonationalism. In the second part of the book, he shows how progress in the study of ethnonationalism has been hampered by terminological confusion, an inclination to perceive homogeneity even where heterogeneity thrives, an unwarranted tendency to seek explanation for ethnic conflict in economic differentials, and lack of historical perspective. The book closes with a consideration of the inherent limitations of rational inquiry into the realm of group-identity. |
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| Product Details |
| Author: |
Walker Connor |
| Binding: |
Paperback |
| Dewey Decimal Number: |
323.11 |
| EAN: |
9780691025636 |
| ISBN: |
0691025630 |
| Label: |
Princeton University Press |
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3395 |
| Currency Code: |
USD |
| Formatted Price: |
$33.95 |
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| Manufacturer: |
Princeton University Press |
| Number Of Items: |
1 |
| Number Of Pages: |
248 |
| Package Dimensions: |
| Height: |
70 |
| Length: |
900 |
| Weight: |
75 |
| Width: |
600 |
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| Product Group: |
Book |
| Publication Date: |
1993-11-15 |
| Publisher: |
Princeton University Press |
| Studio: |
Princeton University Press |
| Title: |
Ethnonationalism |
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| Customer Reviews |
Customer Rating: 5 Review Date: 2000-02-25 8 out of 8 found this review helpful. Summary: Classic, Essential Reading Walker Connor has been writing about ethnonationalism for decades. This is a much needed collection of his essays. They are well written and closely argued. The importance of his arguments for understanding ethnic conflicts in today's world can scarcely be overstated. If you believe that ethnicity and ethnic conflict can be explained by such easily defined things as differences in language, religion, or skin color, you must read this book |
Customer Rating: 1 Review Date: 1998-11-13 5 out of 18 found this review helpful. Summary: Don't waste your money It is an extraordinary compilation about what the author says the other authors did not say. I just read NATIONAL IDENTITY from Anthony D. Smith, and it cannot be compared. Smith also talks about ethnonationalism, but in a better way. Connor does not say something new, nor interesting. And also, it is a compilation of papers previously published. Roberto Remes |
Customer Rating: 4 Review Date: 1997-12-15 4 out of 6 found this review helpful. Summary: Important, a classic After reading Connor's book I find nationalism both roughly definable and I am convinced about its importance, but I am less certain about the reliability of explanations based on nationalism and even more so of the utility of stydying nationalism to find good and feasible policy recommendations |
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