Cynthia Enloe's creative synthesis of the work on ethnicity and political development remains as useful and provocative today as when it was first published. Looking back, we can now see how wise and prophetic it was....

Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, Yale University

This new volume certainly matches or even supercedes Anthony Smith's The Ethnic Revival in its comprehensiveness and coverage of ethnicity from the standpoint of the tate....Part of the value of this study is in its wealth of examples and insights from a wide array of institutions and areas of the world, one of the hallmarks of Enloe's scholarship.

Judith Nagata, York University

Cynthia Enloe's creative synthesis of the work on ethnicity and political development remains as useful and provocative today as when it was first published. Looking back, we can now see how wise and prophetic it was....

Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, Yale University