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020 _a9781139198318 (ebook)
020 _z9781107025554 (hardback)
020 _z9781107673243 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aJC311
_b.W469 2013
082 0 0 _a320.5409/04
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100 1 _aWimmer, Andreas,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWaves of War :
_bNationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World /
_cAndreas Wimmer.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (346 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aWhy did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world and delegitimized empire after empire. Nationalists created nation-states wherever the power configuration favored them, often at the end of prolonged wars of secession. The elites of many of these new states were institutionally too weak for nation-building and favored their own ethnic communities. Ethnic rebels challenged such exclusionary power structures in violation of the principles of self-rule, and neighboring governments sometimes intervened into these struggles over the state. Waves of War demonstrates why nation-state formation and ethnic politics are crucial to understand the civil and international wars of the past 200 years.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107025554
830 0 _aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198318
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37545
_d37545