Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History
Schools have taught us to expect that people should live in separate national states. But the historical records shows that ethnic homogeneity was a barbarian trait; civilized societies mingled peoples of diverse backgrounds into ethnically plural and hierarchically ordered polities.
The exception was northwestern Europe. There, peculiar circumstances permitted the preservation of a fair simulacru...
Schools have taught us to expect that people should live in separate national states. But the historical records shows that ethnic homogeneity was a barbarian trait; civilized societies mingled peoples of diverse backgrounds into ethnically plural and hierarchically ordered polities.
The exception was northwestern Europe. There, peculiar circumstances permitted the preservation of a fair simulacru...
