Against Orthodoxy

This collection of fourteen articles on nationalism showcases current interdisciplinary research in the field with an emphasis on new theoretical analysis of common traits in nationalist movements across time and locality. The work is divided into sections covering theory and history, minorities and civil society, politics and the state, and international relations. Individual articles discuss such topics as academic nationalism, civil and ethnic nationalist narrative in Ethiopia, Christian-Muslim enmities in the Balkans, militarism and nationalism in Japan and America and messianic nationalism. The contributors are academics in sociology and related fields from North American and European universities. Distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press. Distributed in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Trevor W. Harrison is a professor of sociology at theUniversity of Lethbridge, associate director of the sameuniversity's Prentice Institute for Global Population andEconomics, and co-founder and director of the Parkland Institute at theUniversity of Alberta. Slobodan Drakulic was anassociate professor of sociology at Ryerson University.