Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History: The Donald G. Creighton Lectures 1985

by William H. McNeill

Book Overview

Schools have taught us to expect that people should live in separate national states. But the historical records shows that ethnic homogeneity was a barbarian trait; civilized societies mingled peoples of diverse backgrounds into ethnically plural and hierarchically ordered polities.

The exception was northwestern Europe. There, peculiar circumstances permitted the preservation of a fair simulacrum of national unity while a complex civilization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802066437
• ISBN13: 9780802066435
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"