| Contents |
Introducing the problem: the historical relation between ethnicity and democracy / André W.M. Gerrits and Dirk Jan Wolffram -- The eternal stranger: democracy and diversity / Eugen Weber -- Democracy and ethnic diversity: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Ivan T. Berend -- Democracy, ethnicity, and the nation: nineteenth-century France and the Netherlands / Ido de Haan -- Ethnicity and democracy in Europe's multinational empires, 1848-1918 / Aviel Roshwald -- The homogeneous nation-state and the blockade of democratization: Germany and East Central Europe / Philipp Ther -- Democracy and Multinationality in East Central Europe: the external factor / Andrew C. Janos -- Regions, religions, and ethnicity in non-Western Europe / Bruno Naarden -- Democracy and ethnicity: acculturation by politicization / Frank Ankersmit. |
| General note | Papers originally presented at the conference on Ethnic diversity and political democracy in modern European history, organized at the University of Amsterdam, March 2002. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005002180 |
| ISBN | 0804749752 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0804749760 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
