Pluralism and the Politics of Difference (State Culture and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective)

This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states modern industrial societies and the contemporary `postmodern'' world each of which vary economically politically and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.