The Civic and the Tribal State: The State, Ethnicity, and the Multiethnic State
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Civic and the Tribal State: The State, Ethnicity, and the Multiethnic State
By (Author) Feliks Gross
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
9th December 1998
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Anthropology
Social and cultural history
320.1
Physical Properties
Hardback
232
Description
The primordial bonds of early societiescommon ancestry or tribal bonds and territorial or neighborhood bondsare at the root of early political organization. States based on common tribal or ethnic identity have tended to develop into highly nationalistic states. The civic state, based upon territory, appeared in embryonic form in Athens. It was Rome, however, that made the complete transition, creating a civic state based on an association of free citizens, irrespective of ethnicity. The tribal state in its extreme, often totalitarian, form has led to genocide, holocausts, and ethnic cleansing. The civic or territorial state has developed into modern pluralistic, multiethnic, democratic states with equal rights for diverse groups. This was accomplished by a historical process of separation of ethnicity from citizenship. As Feliks Gross shows, there are many types of civic and tribal states: they do not fit into a single model, but they can be grouped into related families. This important survey of political and social development will be of great interest to students and scholars of political sociology, ethnic studies, and political history.
Reviews
.,."refreshing and even inspiring."-Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
...refreshing and even inspiring.-Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
...refreshing and even inspiring.Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
..."refreshing and even inspiring."-Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
Author Bio
FELIKS GROSS is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York, and honorary President of the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Science. He is also President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively, including fourteen earlier book-length studies, of which Ideologies, Goals, and Values (Greenwood, 1984) is the most recent.
