TY - BOOK ID - 78072266 TI - Nationalism and national integration PY - 1989 SN - 1138453536 1280323477 0203400054 0203333764 9780203333761 9780203400050 9780043201800 0043201806 9780043201817 0043201814 0043201814 0043201806 9781138453531 9781280323478 9786610323470 661032347X 9781134999101 9781134999149 9781134999156 1134999143 PB - London Boston Unwin Hyman DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism. KW - Nation-state. KW - National state KW - State, The KW - National interest KW - Self-determination, National KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072266 AB - Nationalist theories are still controversial, while the process and frequent failures of national integration are issues of central importance in the contemporary world. Birch's argument is illustrated by detailed and topical case studies of national integration in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia: the United Kingdom, with the Welsh, the Scots, the Irish and the coloured minorities; Canada, with its Anglo-French tensions, its cultural pluralism and its indigenous peoples claiming the right of self-government; Australia, with its increasing ethnic diversity and its failure to integrate ER -