Waves of War - Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Andreas Wimmer is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is aimed at understanding the dynamics of nation-state formation, ethnic boundary making and political conflict from a comparative perspective. He is the author of Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and his articles have been published by the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, World Politics, Sociological Theory and Ethnic and Racial Studies, among others. Professor Wimmer's work has won best article awards from the Comparative Historical, Political, Cultural and Theory sections of the American Sociological Association as well as the Thyssen Prize for Best Article in the Social Sciences. Klappentext A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and subsequently proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Zusammenfassung A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe! accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of analysis and datasets that cover the entire modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and summary; 2. The birth of the nation; 3. The global rise of the nation-state; 4. Nation-state formation and war; 5. Ethnic politics and armed conflict; 6. Can peace be engineered?; 7. Conclusion; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Wimmer, Andreas (Princeton University Wimmer, Wimmer Andreas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107025554
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02555-4
• No. of pages: 341
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Nationalism, International Relations, General & world history, Comparative Politics, Constitution: government and the state