Pluralism and the politics of difference: state, culture, and ethnicity in comparative perspective

Abstract

1. Plural Societies 2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa 3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire 4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire 5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order 6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within 7. 'Nation of many nations?' The United States and Immigration, 1880-1930 8. A 'magpie society'? From 'Assimilation' to 'Integration' in Britain and France 9. Multiculturalism and Beyond 10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition