Global convulsions : : race, ethnicity, and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century

Van Horne, Winston A. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0791432351 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN: 079143236X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Carol Edler Baumann -- Introduction / Winston A. Van Horne -- 1. Race and Biology / Linda Vigilant -- 2. The Bell Curve: A Cross-Century Tradition Concerning Race and Intellect / Winston A. Van Horne -- 3. Race in History / Martin Bernal -- 4. Concepts of Nationalism in History / Brian E. Porter -- 5. Cultural Foundations of Ethnonationalism: The Role of Religion / Martin E. Marty -- 6. Cultural Nationalism and "Internationalization" in Contemporary Japan / Kosaku Yoshino -- 7. Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland / Marianne Elliott -- 8. Israel and Palestinian Statehood / Galia Golan -- 9. Palestinian Statehood / Muhammad Hallaj -- 10. Whither the Kurds? / George S. Harris -- 11. The Relentless Pursuit of the National State: Reflections on Soviet and Post-Soviet Experiences / Mark R. Beissinger -- 12. Nationality Questions in the Baltic: The Lithuanian Example / Alfred Erich Senn -- 13. Ethnonationalism and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia / Robin Alison Remington -- 14. China and the Containment of Ethnonationalism / David D. Buck -- 15. Political Ethnicity and State-Building in Nigeria / Claude Ake -- 16. Canada and the Challenge of the Quebec Independence Movement / Marc V. Levine -- Epilogue / Winston A. Van Horne.