By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people.

Preface; 1. Trust, diversity, and segregation; 2. Contact, diversity, and segregation; 3. Building trust in a segregated society: the United States; 4. Canada: trust, integration, and the search for identity; 5. The United Kingdom: sleepwalking or wide awake?; 6. Sweden and Australia: newer immigrants, trust, and multiculturalism; 7. Altruism and segregation; 8. Where you sit depends on where you stand; 9. The farmer's daughter and intergroup contact.

Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Center for American Law and Political Science, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China and Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the founding editor of the Sage University Papers on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly and the Journal of Trust Research. Professor Uslaner is author or editor of twelve books, including Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Moral Foundations of Trust (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He received his PhD from Indiana University.