Books Reviews

Books reviewed: Geremie R. Barmé, In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture. Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern (eds.), Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600–1850. Dana D. Nelson, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. Dru C. Gladney (ed.), Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States. John Hargreaves, Freedom for Catalonia: Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity and the Barcelona Olympic Games. Kosaku Yoshino (ed.), Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences. Antje Wiener, European Citizenship Practice: Building Institutions of a Non‐state. Michael Dillon, China's Muslim Hui Community: Migration, Settlement and Sects. Stefan Berger and Angel Smith (eds.), Nationalism, Labour and Ethnicity 1870–1939. Patrick Pasture and Johan Veberckmoes (eds.), Working‐class Internationalism and the Appeal of National Identity. Darshan Singh Tatla, The Sikh Diaspora: the Search for Statehood. Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid (eds.), Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Staffan Zetterholm (ed.), National Cultures and European Integration: Explanatory Essays on Cultural Diversity and Common Politics. Brian Jenkins and Spyros A. Sofos (eds.), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe. Helma Lutz, Ann Phoenix and Nira Yuval-Davis (eds.), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe. Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics. Tracey Hill and William Hughes (eds.), Contemporary Writing & National Identity. Clare Mar-Molinero and Angel Smith (eds.), Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula: Competing and Conflicting Identities. Michael Newman. Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union. Seamus Dunn and T. G. Fraser, with a Foreword by Dr Otto van Habsburg, Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and contemporary ethnic conflict. Peter Lynch, Minority Nationalism and European Integration. Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd, The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation. Donald Clark and Robert Williamson (eds.), Self-Determination: International Perspectives. Milton J. Esman and Shibley Telhami (eds.), International Organisations and Ethnic Conflict. Williamson, Joel, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Subrata Mitra and Alison Lewis (eds.), Subnational Movements in South Asia.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Daniele Conversi, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Mobilization. Richard Kearney, Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy. Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Neoellenikos Diaphotisms: Oi Politikes kai Koinonikes Idees [Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: The Political and Social Ideas]. John Hutchinson and A. D. Smith (eds.), Ethnicity. George M. Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements. Urs Altermatt, Das Fanal von Sarajevo. Ethnonationalismus in Europa. David Callahan, Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conjiict. Geoffrey Partington, The Australian Nation: Its British and Irish Roots (with a new introduction by the author). Robert J. Foster (ed.), Nation-Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. Mushirul Hasan, Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence. Stein Tonnesson and Hans Antloev (eds.), Asian Forms of the Nation. Pritam Singh and Shinder S. Thandi (eds.), Globalisation and the Region: Explorations in Punjabi Identity.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Steven Laurence Kaplan, Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989. Patrik Hall, The Social Construction of Nationalism: The Example of Sweden. Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo. Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer, Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity. Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji-Farouki (eds.), Muslim Identity and the Balkan State. Ali Eminov, Turkish and other Muslim Minorities of Bulgaria. Bobby S. Sayyid, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism. Tariq Modood and Pnina Werbner (eds.), The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe: Racism, Identity und Community. Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood (eds.), Debuting Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism. Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, South Africa and Brazil.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan (eds.), The Morality of Nationalism. Gerald F. Gaus, Justijicatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory. Edwin N. Wilmsen and Patrick McAllistar (eds.), The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power. Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe (eds.), Nationalism and Rationality. Richard Jenkins, Rethinking Ethnicity: Arguments and Explorations. Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger (eds.), Postcolonial Identities in Africa. Vasudha Dalmia, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-century Banares. Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece. Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith. Anna Procyk, Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army during the Civil War.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed John McGarry (ed.), Northern Ireland and the Divided World: the Northern Ireland Conflict and the Good Friday Agreement in Comparative Perspective Brendan O’Leary, I. S. Lustick and T. Callaghy (eds.), Right–sizing the State: the Politics of Moving Borders Victor Roudometof, Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: the Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen Gonzalez–Enriquez and Paloma Aguilar (eds.), The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies Shalva Weil (ed.), Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective Montserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson (eds.), Understanding Nationalism Ernest B. Haas, Nationalism, Liberalism and Progress. Volume II: The Dismal Fate of New Nations Margaret Moore, The Ethics of Nationalism David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies Sita Ranchod–Nillson and Mary Ann Tétreault (eds.), Women, States and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? Robert Shannan Peckham, National History, Natural States: Nationalism and the Politics of Place in Greece Nicholas Doumanis, Italy: Inventing the Nation Kenneth McRoberts, Catalonia: Nation Building Without a State Jan–Werner Müller, Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity Bill Niven, Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich David McCrone, Understanding Scotland: the Sociology of a Stateless Nation (2nd edn). Igor Zevelev, Russia and its New Diasporas Parimal Ghosh, Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825–1932 Angelene Naw, Aung San and the Struggle for Burmese Independence Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans June C. Nash, Mayan Visions: the Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Les Back and John Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and Racism: a Reader. Erik J. Zuercher, Turkey: a Modern History (2nd edn). Charles van der Leeuw, Storm over the Caucasus: In the Wake of Independence. George Hewitt (ed.), The Abkhazians. A Handbook. Leokadia Drobizheva et al. (eds.), Ethnic Conflict in the Post‐Soviet World. Case Studies and Analysis. George W. White, Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe. Sikata Banerjee, Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India. Joanna McKay, The Official Concept of the Nation in the Former GDR: Theory, Pragmatism and the Search for Legitimacy. Walter A. Kemp, Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A Basic Contradiction? J. A. Mangan (ed.), Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon – Aryan Fascism. Iftikhar Malik, Islam, Nationalism and the West: Issues of Identity in Pakistan. Kjell Blückert, The Church as Nation: A Study in Ecclesiology and Nationhood. Senia Paseta, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland's Catholic Elite, 1879–1922. Zlatko Skrbis, Long‐distance Nationalism, Diasporas, Homelands and Identities. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Lyn Spillman, Nation and Commemoration: Creating Identities in the United States and Australia. Gertjan Dijkink, National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain. Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925s to the 1990s. Sumantra Bose, The Challenge in ffishmir: Democracy, Self-Determination and a Just Peace. David E. F. Henley, Nationalism and Regionalism in a Colonial Context: Minahasa in the Dutch East Indies. Stuart Woolf (ed.), Nationalism in Europe: From 1815 to the Present. Ruth Drost-Hüttl, Die schottische Nationalbewegung zwischen 1886 und 1934: Nationalistische Ziele und Strategien im Wandel. Jürgen Kocka, Vereinigungskrise. Zur Geschichte der Gegenwart. Étienne François et al. (eds.), Nation und Emotion. James Loughlin, Ulster Unionism and British National Identity since 1885. Jeff Chinn and Robert Kaiser, Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Paul James, Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community. Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination. Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Susan Paul Pattie, Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. C. C. Barfoot (ed.), Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice. Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber (eds.), State Sovereignty as Social Construct Michel Wieviorka (ed.), Une société fragmentée? Le multiculturalisme en débat. Gérard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. David Westerlund (ed.), Questioning the Secular State: The Worldwide Resurgence of Religion in Politics. Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Paul R. Brass, Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. K. E. Schulze, M. Stokes and C. Campbell (eds.), Nationalism, Nationalities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East. Dusan Kecmanovic, The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism.     

Review Article: Nationalisms,National Identities and Nation States: Gendered Perspectives

Books reviewed in this article: Nira Yuval‐Davis, Gender & Nation Lois West (ed.), Feminist Nationalism Rick Wilford and Robert L. Miller (eds.), Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition Cynthia Cockburn, The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Athena Leoussi (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Nationalism Anthony D. Smith, Myths and Memories of the Nation. Alain Dieckhoff and Natividad Gutiérrez (eds.), Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity. Tamar Mayer (ed.), Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation. Keely Stauter–Halsted, The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914. Panikos Payani (ed.), Weimar and Nazi Germany: Continuities and Discontinuities. Dieter Langewiesche, Nation, Nationalismus, Nationalstaat in Deutschland und Europa. Damian Tambini, Nationalism in Italian Politics: The Stories of the Northern League, 1980–2000. J. M. Fladmark (ed.), Heritage and Museums: Shaping National Identity. Arthur Aughey, Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State. Paul Robert Magocsi, Of the Making of Nationalities There is No End. Jane K. Cowan (ed.), Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference. Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. Henrietta Harrison, China: Inventing the Nation.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Anthony D. Smith, Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era. Charles A. Kupchan (ed.), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe. Jyrki Livonen (ed.), The Future of the Nation State in Europe. Peter Collins (ed.), Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921. James G. Carrier (ed.), Occidentalism: Images of the West. Omar Dehbour and Micheline R. Ishay (eds.), The Nationalism Reader. Juan Diez Medrano, Divided Nations: Class, Politics, and Nationalism in the Basque Country and Catalonia. Bernhard Giesen, Die Intellektuellen und die Nation. Eine deutsche Achesenzeit. Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds.), Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy. Peter Fitzpatrick (ed.), Nationalism, Racism and the Rule of Law. William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann (eds.), Many Are Chosen. Divine Election and Western Nationalism. Dawa Norbu, Culture and the Politics of Third World Nationalism. André Liebich and Daniel Warner with Jasna Dragovic (eds.), Citizenship East and West. Sukumar Periwal (ed.), Notions of Nationalism. Christopher Bennett, Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences. Kenichi Ohmae, The End of the Nation-State: the Rise of Regional Economics. Michel Cahen, Ethnicité politique. Pour une lecture réaliste de l'identité. Boas Evron, Jewish State or Israeli Nation. Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. Moses Hess, The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, The Last Nationalist, Questions, History and Causes. Bernard Lazare, Antisemitism, Its History and Causes. Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis (eds.), Unsettling Settler Societies.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: George L. Mosse, Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism. Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. John Hutchinson, Modern Nationalism. Mathew Horsman and Andrew Marshall, After the Nation-State. Citizens, Tribalism and the New World Disorder. Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff, Ethnic Conflict In World Politics. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947–1977. Roger Michener (ed.), Nationality, Patriotism and Nationalism in Liberal Democratic Societies. Ian M. Cuthbertson and Jane Leibowitz (eds.), Minorities: The New Europe's Old Issue. Pascalis M. Kitromilides, The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iossiopos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Michael A. Osborne, Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism.     

Books Reviews

Books reviewed: Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz (eds.), The Myth of ‘Ethnic Conflict’: Politics, Economics and ‘Cultural’ Violence. Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations. Jonathan Hearn, Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture. Natividad Gutieérrez, Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State. Mary Anne Perkins, Nation and Word, 1770–1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness. Peter J. S. Duncan, Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After. Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes (eds.), Multicultural Questions. Clare Mar Molinero, The Politics of Language in the Spanish‐speaking World. Edmund Herzig, The New Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr and Thomas Piazza, The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Alexander J. Motyl, Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr, Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth‐century Black America.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. Mark Pinson (ed.) The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. H. T. Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World. Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The quest for understanding. Raymond W. Duncan and Paul G. Holman, Jr. (eds.), Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Conflict: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose (eds.), Constructions of Race Place and Nation. Dermot Keogh and Michael T. Haltzel (eds.), Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation. Oliver P. Rafferty, Catholicism in Ulster 1603–1983: An Interpretative History. Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann et al. (eds.), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Stephen Iwan Griffiths, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Threats to European Security.     

Book Reviews

Anatol Lieven, Ukraine and Russia: a Fraternal Rivalry Otto Bauer, The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy David Brown, Contemporary Nationalism Stephen Barbour and Cathie Carmichael (eds.), Language and Nationalism in Europe Francisco Letamendia, Game of Mirrors: Centre–Periphery National Conflicts Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence: Democratisation and Nationalist Conflict Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship Barnor Hesse (ed.), Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions Susan‐Mary Grant, North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era Susan Gubar, Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture Rana Mitter, The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China Paul J. White, Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies – Reburial and Postsocialist Change. The Harriman Lectures     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding Martin Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh (eds.), The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power Jacques Kornberg, Theodor Herd From Assimilation to Zionism Roman Szporluk (ed.), National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Erica Benner, Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels Bernd Baumgartl and Adrian Faveil (eds.), New Xenophobia in Europe Martin MacEwen, Tackling Racism in Europe: An Examination of Anti-Discrimination Law in Practice David Jacobson, Rights Across Borders—Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship Marco Martiniello (ed.), Migration, Citizenship and Ethno-National Identities in the European Union     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Hagen Schulze, States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present. P. M. Kitromilides, Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy: Studies in the Culture and Political Thought of South-Eastern Europe Richard Caplan and John Feffer (eds.), Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict. Tom Garvin, 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy. Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism. Anssi Paasi, Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: The Changing Geographies of the Finnish-Russian Border. Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism 1914–1945. Hubertus F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia During World War I. Paul B. Rich, Prospero's Return? Historical Essays on Race, Culture and British Society. Stephen Haseler, The English Tribe: Identity, Nation and Europe. Timothy D. Sisk, Power-Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts. Stephanie Lawson, Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific. Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner and Sarah Nuttall (eds.), Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: James H. Cassing and Steven L. Husted (eds). Capital, Technology, and Labor in the New Global Economy. G.T. Kenshaw (ed.), Market Liberalisation, Equity and Development. Joan M. Nelson el al., Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Hamza Alavi and John Harriss (eds), South Asia — Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Frans Schuurman and Ton van Naerssen (eds), Urban Social Movements in the Third World. Susan Eckstein (ed.), Power and Popular Protest. Latin American Social Movements. Jonathan Hartlyn, The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Bernard Eccleston, State and Society in Post-war Japan. Melanie Beresford, National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam. June I. Parpart (ed.), Homen and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives. Anil Bhatt, Development and Social Justice. Micro Action by Weaker Sections.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism and Modernism: a critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism. Paul Gilbert, The Philosophy of Nationalism. Margaret Canovan, Nationhood and Political Theory. Margaret Moore (ed.), National Self‐Determination and Secession. Robert L. Rothstein (ed.), After the Peace: resistance and reconciliation. Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht. Stephen Wood, Germany, Europe, and the Persistence of Nations. Ulf Hedetoft (ed.), Political Symbols, Symbolic Politics: European identities in transformation. Bridget Taylor and Katarina Thomson (eds.), Scotland and Wales: nations again? Anthony Easthope, Englishness and National Culture. Jeremy Paxman, The English: A Portrait of a People. Keith Robbins, Great Britain: identities, institutions and the idea of Britishness.