Understanding Multiculturalism

<ul> <li> Offers a comparative critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted.</li> <li> Critically analyzes the concept of multiculturalism and examines the experience of pluricultural societies <em>in the present and the past</em>.</li> <li> Examines the multinational and pluricultural experience of the region in a <em>critical analytic way</em> free of the <em>methodological nationalism</em> that has characterized much of the writing in this field heretofore.</li> <li> Contains a non-western approach to the understanding of multiculturalism.</li></ul>