Description |
v, 442 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction: The Nature of the Beast -- 2. Reason, Identity and Power -- 3. Civil Society, Ethnicity and the State: A Threefold Relationship -- 4. Citizenship, Ethnicity and Cultural Reproduction -- 5. Left and Right: Europe in the 1990s -- 6. Commemoration: Why Remember? -- 7. A Taxonomy of Myths and their Functions -- 8. Ideological Thinking and Post-Communism -- 9. Language and Ethnicity in Central and Eastern Europe: Some Theoretical Aspects -- 10. Cultural Diversity and Good Governance: Some General Considerations -- 11. Why Empires Fail -- 12. The Communist Experience and Nationhood -- 13. An Analysis of Post-Communism -- 14. The Rise of Anti-Democratic Movements -- 15. Communism and State Legitimation -- 16. Culling Sacred Cows? State Frontiers and Stability -- 17. The Problem of Ethnic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe -- 18. minorities under Communism -- 19. Ethnic Minorities in South-Eastern Europe -- 20. Minorities and Post-Communism: a Political and Sociological Analysis -- 21. Englishness: Citizenship, Ethnicity and Class -- 22. Yugoslavia: State Construction and State Failure -- 23. Power, Ethnicity and Communism in Yugoslavia -- 24. Hungary as Kin-State -- 25. Hungary and its Neighbours -- 26. Inter-Ethnic Relations in Transylvania: Rhetoric and Reality -- 27. Human Rights and the Nationality Question in Romania |
Analysis |
Europe |
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Nationalism |
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Ethnic relations |
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Democracy |
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National identity |
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Civil society |
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Citizenship |
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Minorities |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Ethnicity -- Europe, Western.
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Nationalism -- Europe, Western.
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Ethnicity -- Europe, Eastern.
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Nationalism -- Europe, Eastern.
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Minorities -- Europe.
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Ethnicity -- Europe.
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Nationalism -- Europe.
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Nation-state.
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Nationalism.
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103329
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ISBN |
1850654107 paperback |
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1850654093 : |
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