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Citizenship and Ethnicity The Growth and Development of a Democratic Multiethnic Institution
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Feliks Gross
Book Code: GM0932
ISBN: 0-313-30932-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30932-8
160 pages, index
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Sociology
Series Number: 128
Reviews:
  • One can scarcely imagine a more timely volume than Professor Gross' very excellent and engaging Citizenship and Ethnicity. An attentive reading of this fine work will pay dividends to scholars and laypersons alike who are concerned for our shared democratic future.
    —The Polish Review     2001
Description: Today, all industrialized states are multinational. However, as Political Sociologist Feliks Gross points out, there remains considerable debate and experimentation on how to organize a multiethnic, democratic, and humane state. Gross examines various types of multiethnic states as well as their early origins and prospects for success. In the past, minorities were usually formed as a consequence of conquest or migration; minorities tended to have an inferior status, subordinated to the ruling, dominant ethnic class. While Athens provides an early example of a state formed by alliance and association, the Romans advanced this concept when they extended to subjected peoples the status by means of citizenship. After the fall of Rome, citizenship continued in Italian and other continental cities. In England, subjectship associated with individual freedom had native roots. The American and French Revolutions revived and created the modern definition of citizenship. Along with Rome, however, only the United States provides an example of a successful multiethnic state of continental dimensions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Multiethnic State: The Way It Began
  • The Roots of Citizenship: Athens and Rome
  • Citizenship Survives in the Cities of Europe
  • Unfolding of Democratic Citizenship
  • Concluding Comments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-21277
LCC Class: JC312
Dewey Class: 323
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