An Introduction to the Problem
The Received Notions of Identity
An Ethnographic/Biographical Approach to Identity
The Idea of Political-Cultural Identity
Global Changes and New Political-Cultural Identities
Changing Political-Cultural Identities in Europe
Changing Political-Cultural Identities in the USA
Changing Political-Cultural Identities in Pacific Asia
Locale, Network and Memory

P W Preston is Reader in Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His recent publications include Political/Cultural Identity (1997) and Pacific Asia in the Global System (1998).

This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world.