Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. An 'ethnic revival'?; 2. Uneven development; 3. Language and community; 4. Ethnic consciousness in pre-modern eras; 5. Historicism; 6. Bureaucracy and the intelligentsia; 7. State integration and ethnic schism; 8. Accommodation and neo-ethnicity; 9. 'Neo-nationalism'; 10. Towards the scientific state; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Explores the ethnic separatisms and 'neo-nationalisms' that threatened to undermine the fragile stability of the world order in the early 1980s.