Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contact Hypothesis

by H. D. Forbes and H.D. Forbes

Book Overview

The social sciences offer many insights into the causes of the intense ethnic conflicts that characterize the close of the twentieth century, but they also create obstacles to understanding these baffling problems, contends H. D. Forbes in this important book. Forbes takes a critical look at the "contact hypothesis"--the assumption commonly held by social scientists that increased contact between different ethnic groups gives each group more accurate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068190
• ISBN13: 9780300068191
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"