Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History : : The Donald G. Creighton Lectures 1985 / / William H. McNeill.
Schools have taught us to expect that people should live in separate national states. But the historical records shows that ethnic homogeneity was a barbarian trait; civilized societies mingled peoples of diverse backgrounds into ethnically plural and hierarchically ordered polities. The exception w...
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McNeill, William H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History : The Donald G. Creighton Lectures 1985 / William H. McNeill. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1986 1 online resource (96 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- LECTURE ONE. Empire and Nation to 1750 -- LECTURE TWO. The 'Iriumph of Nationalism, 1750-1920 -- LECTURE THREE. Reassertion of the Polyethnic Norm since 1920 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Schools have taught us to expect that people should live in separate national states. But the historical records shows that ethnic homogeneity was a barbarian trait; civilized societies mingled peoples of diverse backgrounds into ethnically plural and hierarchically ordered polities. The exception was northwestern Europe. There, peculiar circumstances permitted the preservation of a fair simulacrum of national unity while a complex civilization developed. The ideal of national unity was enthusiastically propagated by historians and teachers even in parts of Europe where mingled nationalities prevailed. Overseas, European empires and zones for settlement were always ethnically plural; but in northwestern Europe the tide has turned only since about 1920, and now diverse groups abound in Paris and London as well as in New York and Sydney. Age-old factors promoting the mingling of diverse populations have asserted this power, and continue to do so even when governments in the ex-colonial lands of Africa and Asia are trying hard to create new nations within what are sometimes quite arbitrary boundaries. In demonstrating how unusual and transitory the concept of national ethnic homogeneity has been in world history, William McNeill offers an understanding that may help human minds to adjust to the social reality around them. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Cultural pluralism History. Cultural pluralism Canada History. Nationalism History. Nationalism Canada History. HISTORY / Canada / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487582623 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487582623 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487582623.jpg |
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