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A Note on the Theory of Nationalism as a Function of Ethnic Demands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

James Lightbody
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Queen's University
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1969

References

* The author wishes to acknowledge the initial suggestions of Professors Khayyam Paltiel and Kenneth McRae of Carleton University in whose seminar on nationalism these thoughts were, with trepidation, first advanced.

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