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Author Dench, Geoff

Title Minorities in an Open Society
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION; PREFACE AND SUMMARY; Summary of argument; Part I: THE AMBIVALENT STATE; 1 TWO FACES OF MODERN NATIONALISM; An issue fudged; Coming to terms with duality; 2 SERVING TWO MASTERS; Props to the economy; Reservoirs of extraordinary patriotism; Keepers of the faith; Part II: CAPTIVE LEADERS; 3 PIERRE TRUDEAU IN THRALL TO CANADIAN INTEGRITY; In bondage to a higher destiny; Trudeau's advocacy of federalism; 4 THE RED TSAR AS A PAWN OF GREAT RUSSIAN CHAUVINISM; Patrons in need of a client
The Georgian Affair5 JFK: MESSENGER FOR SECOND RECONSTRUCTION; A nation requiring redemption; Playing the minority card; 6 DISRAELI'S TRIBUTE TO BRITISH IMPERIALISM; Sponsorship and dependence; The Bonapartist moment; Part III: TORMENTS IN CAPTIVITY; 7 THE TREADMILL OF ETHNIC HONOUR; Social control in closed communities; The degradation in emancipation; Onto the treadmill; 8 ON THE RACK OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS; Bonds of multiple fealty; Pulled between rival patrons; Taking the strain; 9 TRIALS OF COMMITMENT; The objective test of culture; Weighing up the evidence of roots
Arrested in the lobbyPart IV: THE FRAMEWORK OF CONTAINMENT; 10 THE POWER OF COMMUNALISM; The fraternal imperative; Communalism and class; 11 MINORITY RIGHTS AND NATIONAL STRATEGIES; The utopian period; Vehicles in collision: 1848-1918; Dismantling the Old World: 1918-40; The postwar era -- A golden age of decolonization; 12 DISCRIMINATION AND THE LIBERAL SOCIAL ORDER; Keeping an orderly house; Masquerades of class action; CONCLUSION: THE ROLE FOR SOCIAL THEORY; Theory as exhortation; Taking the pressure off; REFERENCES; INDEX
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Subject Ethnic groups -- Civil rights
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Minorities -- Civil rights.
ethnicity.
Ethnic groups -- Civil rights
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Minorities -- Civil rights
Form Electronic book
Author Dench, Geoff
ISBN 9781351505215
1351505211