Papers originally presented at the conference on Ethnic diversity and political democracy in modern European history, organized at the University of Amsterdam, March 2002. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-186) and index.
Contents:
Introducing the problem : the historical relation between ethnicity and democracy / André W.M. Gerrits and Dirk Jan Wolffram -- The eternal stranger : democracy and diversity / Eugen Weber -- Democracy and ethnic diversity : the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Ivan T. Berend -- Democracy, ethnicity, and the nation : nineteenth-century France and the Netherlands / Ido de Haan -- Ethnicity and democracy in Europe's multinational empires, 1848-1918 / Aviel Roshwald -- The homogeneous nation-state and the blockade of democratization : Germany and East Central Europe / Philipp Ther -- Democracy and Multinationality in East Central Europe : the external factor / Andrew C. Janos -- Regions, religions, and ethnicity in non-Western Europe / Bruno Naarden -- Democracy and ethnicity : acculturation by politicization / Frank Ankersmit.
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