The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the Twentieth Century

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Temple University Press, 2009 - Social Science - 344 pages
The class forces that have come to play a central role in directing movements in different socio-political, temporal, and geographic settings are explored in case studies of * the political history of nationalist movements in Palestine, Kurdistan, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, the Basque Country, and Quebec * the role of the state in ethnic conflicts in India, China, the former Soviet Union, and the former Yugoslavia *the role of women and issues of gender and class in Africa, the Middle East, and Central America.
 

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Introduction
1
The National Question in the Third World
13
Palestinian Nationalism and the Struggle for National SelfDetermination
15
The Kurdish National Movement and the Struggle for National Autonomy
36
Apartheid and the National Question in South Africa
61
Ethnicity Religion and National Politics in India
77
Women in National Liberation Struggles in the Third World
95
The National Question in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
131
Basque Nationalism and the Struggle for SelfDetermination in the Basque Country
180
Quebec Nationalism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in French Canada
199
Socialism and the Nationalities Question
225
The Nationalities Question in the Former Soviet Union Transcaucasia the Baltics and Central Asia
227
National Minorities and Nationalities Policy in China
259
Nationalism Ethnic Conflict and SelfDetermination in the Former Yugoslavia
280
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
315
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
327

Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Struggle for Independence
133
The National Question and the Struggle against British Imperialism in Northern Ireland
158

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