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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (96 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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