Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History: The Donald G. Creighton Lectures 1985

by William H. McNeill

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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 was northwestern Europe. There, peculiar circumstances permitted the preservation of a fair simulacrum of national unity while a complex civilization...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0802066437

ISBN13:9780802066435

Release Date:November 1986

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:96 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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