Containing Nationalism (Paperback)

by Michael Hechter

Book Overview

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world today. Scholarship has provided scant guidance for containing the dark side of nationalism--its widely publicized excesses of violence, such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Based on fundamental theoretical ideas about the formation and solidarity of groups, Containing Nationalism offers a groundbreaking unified explanation of the dynamics of nationalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019924751X
• ISBN13: 9780199247516
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"