Ethnonationalism The Quest for Understanding

Name: Ethnonationalism The Quest for Understanding
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ISBN: 9780691025636

ISBN-10: 0691025630

ISBN-13: 9780691025636

Edition: 1994

Authors: Walker Connor

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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…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/5/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.21" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Introduction



The British Intellectual Tradition ("Self-Determination: The New Phase")



American Scholarship in the Post-World War II Era ("Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying?")



More Recent Developments ("Ethnonationalism")



Terminological Chaos ("A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is a...")



Illusions of Homogeneity ("Myths of Hemispheric, Continental, Regional, and State Unity")



The Seductive Lure of Economic Explanations ("Eco- or Ethno-Nationalism?")



Ahistoricalness: The Case of Western Europe ("Ethnonationalism in the First World: The Present in Historical Perspective")



Man Is a [R(n)ational] Animal ("Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond")



When Is a Nation? ("From Tribe to Nation?")


Index