MACMILLAN Ethnic Challenges to the Modern

Product Description A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to modernity itself, on the philosophical, political and social levels. These issues are examined theoretically and in a number of case studies encompassing three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler states in America, Africa and the Middle East, and post-colonial states in Asia and Africa. Contributors come from leading universities in Israel, Europe and North America and from several academic disciplines. About the Author SHLOMO BEN-AMI is Professor of Modern History and holds the Elias Sounasky Chair for Iberian and Latin American Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has been a member of the Knesset since 1996 and a Cabinet Minister since 1999. YOAV PELED is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He has held appointments at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva and visiting appointments at UCLA, University of California. He is the author of Class and Ethnicity in the Pale. ALBERTO SPECTOROWSKI is Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University.