Description
Book Synopsis* Offer a concise introduction to this controversial and growing area of study and debate. * Explores the ways in which minorities are constructed through religion, race, language and ethnicity. * Draws on a range of contemporary examples from across the world.
Trade Review"An agile and gripping work which adroitly moves from the evolution of church-state relations to political philosophy, international relations theory to affirmative action and finally to the development of international society in the twentieth century."
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism "This is an important book. At a time when western societies are becoming increasingly polarised between those who urge the virtues of milticulturalism and those who fear that our values are being undermined and our security threatened by the presence of minorities, we badly need a careful and clear-headed appraisal of minority rights and the dilemmas that they pose. Jennifer Jackson Preece is to be congratulated on providing us with just such an account."
James Mayall, University of Cambridge
Table of ContentsPreface.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Understanding the ‘Problem Minorities.
2. Religion.
3. Race.
4. Language.
5. Ethnicity.
6. Beyond the ‘Problem of Minorities’?.
Appendix A: Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging.
to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.
Appendix B: Selected Documents.
References.
Index.
