Understanding Multiculturalism The Habsburg Central European Experience

Offers a comparative, critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted. Critically analyzes the concept of multiculturalism and examines the experience of pluricultural societies in the present and the past. Examines the multinational and pluricultural experience of the region in a critical, analytic way, free of the methodological nationalism that has characterized much of the writing in this field heretofore. Contains a non-western approach to the understanding of multiculturalism.