Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History

The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, different ethnicities, and different religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues. The studies drawn together in this volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times and illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and accommodation to the power differences between the contesting groups. The is done within a generalized framework outlined by the editors in their analytical overview, which offers contours for comparative examinations of such disputes, past and present. Providing conceptual and factual analysis of a comparative nature and wealth of empirical material (both historical and contemporary), this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists,anthropologists and all scholars interested in issues concerning ethno-nationality and land rights in historical perspective.