Making Majorities
Subtitle: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780804730488
Subjects: Ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology; Minorities; Ethnicity; Archaeology / Anthropology; Majorities; China; Fiji; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; Turkey; USA; Minority Studies - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History & Theory - General; Social Science / Minority Studies; Case studies
First sentence: PREVIOUS studies of nationalism have tended to be confined to the classic cases of "old nationalism" or to the more recent cases of "neonationalism" and ethnic separatism without paying adequate attention to the development of national identity in long-established nations subsequent to the initial period of nation formation.