First published in 1985, Ethnic Groups and the State examines the effects of the state, its official ideologies, its structural forms and its specific policies upon the formation of ethnic identity.

List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Ethnic Groups and the State 2. Ethnicity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial State in Africa 3. The Ethnicity Problem in a Multi-Ethnic National State: Continuity and Recasting of Ethnic Identity in the Ottoman State 4. Slovak Nationalism and the Hungarian State 1870-1910 5. The Institutional Management of Cultural Diversity: An Analysis of the Yugoslav Experience 6. Castilians, Basques, and Andalusians: A Historical Comparison of Nationalism, "True" Ethnicity, and "False" Ethnicity 7. Ethnic Conflict, Representation and the State in Belgium 8. Legitimacy and the Institutionalisation of Ethnicity: Comparing South Africa 9. Recent Government Attitudes Toward Indian Tribal Autonomy and Separatism in the United States Index