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

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...