Ethnicity and nation building in the Nordic world
The grave problems throughout the world involving ethnic groups and multicultural societies make studies such as this particularly useful. The place of ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries, with their long traditions of national identity, integral nationalism and cultural homogeneity, is of int...
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Southern Illinois Univ. Press
1995
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Zusammenfassung: | The grave problems throughout the world involving ethnic groups and multicultural societies make studies such as this particularly useful. The place of ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries, with their long traditions of national identity, integral nationalism and cultural homogeneity, is of interest from at least three comparative viewpoints. First, the historical, institutional and cultural similarity of those countries make them a unique field for internal comparison. Second, the Nordic countries provide especially well documented and researched models for the study of ethnicity in other Old World countries based on integral nationality. And finally, the countries offer instructive comparisons with ones of more recent origin created by multiethnic immigration, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Brazil Few people would include Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, four stable and apparently homogeneous countries lying on the northern periphery of Europe, within the context of the reemergence of ethnic nationalism throughout the world, yet each country contains ethnic minorities. In Ethnicity and Nation-Building in the Nordic World, Sven Tagil and his contributors examine the historical experiences and the modern roles of these minorities in the emergence of nationalism in the Nordic world |
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Beschreibung: | IX, 333 S. Kt. |
ISBN: | 0809319748 0-8093-1974-8 1850652392 1-85065-239-2 |