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"An elegant and sweeping account of modern nationalism."--Foreign Affairs
"The most important book about nationalism since Gellner wrote Nations and Nationalism."--The European Sociological Review
"Hechter has rightly closed in on nationalism as a form of collective action rather than principally an idea, emotion, or attitude. No one has made a case as well before."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University
"Hechter elegantly turns tentative hunches into a systematic and cognitively high-powered general theory. This book has the same stature as the acknowledged classics by Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson."--John Hall, McGill University and Queen's University, Belfast
"Containing Nationalism is a superb book....Hechter constructs a logically rigorous theoretical framework that manages to be both intuitively appealing and strikingly original."--Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University, Newark
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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 across the broad sweep of history and geography. Michael Hechter argues that the impetus for the most common type of nationalism arises from the imposition of direct rule in culturally heterogeneous societies--stimulating national identity, reducing the resources of local elites, motivating the mobilization of nationalist opposition to central authorities, and ultimately heightening the demand for sovereignty. Hechter suggests that political institutions that reintroduce indirect rule offer the leaders of modern countries the best available means of containing nationalist violence within their borders.
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"An elegant and sweeping account of modern nationalism."--Foreign Affairs
"The most important book about nationalism since Gellner wrote Nations and Nationalism."--The European Sociological Review
"Hechter has rightly closed in on nationalism as a form of collective action rather than principally an idea, emotion, or attitude. No one has made a case as well before."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University
"Hechter elegantly turns tentative hunches into a systematic and cognitively high-powered general theory. This book has the same stature as the acknowledged classics by Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson."--John Hall, McGill University and Queen's University, Belfast
"Containing Nationalism is a superb book....Hechter constructs a logically rigorous theoretical framework that manages to be both intuitively appealing and strikingly original."--Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University, Newark
Product Description
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 across the broad sweep of history and geography. Michael Hechter argues that the impetus for the most common type of nationalism arises from the imposition of direct rule in culturally heterogeneous societies--stimulating national identity, reducing the resources of local elites, motivating the mobilization of nationalist opposition to central authorities, and ultimately heightening the demand for sovereignty. Hechter suggests that political institutions that reintroduce indirect rule offer the leaders of modern countries the best available means of containing nationalist violence within their borders.
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