A case for the Balkanization of practically everyone : the new nationalism / Michael Zwerin.

"Something is stirring in the political undergrowth - separatism. In Wales and Scotland the movement has made gigantic strides and nationalisms once believed dead are again visible and vocal. In Spain the Basques make headlines and are more powerfully present than at any time for forty years. But it does not stop there. In France, Occitania, a 'nation' that includes Provence; in Northen Europe, the Lapps; elsewhere in Spain the Catalans ... even across the Atlantic, the Mohawks - the small nations, the buried critures, the linguistic and ethnic minorities are reasserting their vitality and their identity. And demanding a reconstruction of the monolithic states which have incorporated and forgotten them. These struggling nationalities, these separatists, these troublesome, turbulent minorities are the Fourth World - the colonial oppressed inside the imperial homelands. Their case - the case of smallness, of devolution, of separatism- is seldom put, seldom understood Michael Zwerin sets out to break the silence. His book is an avowedly partisan argument against the system of large states, structures, land against the 'big battalions'. It is a book based on personal exploration of an [sic] contact with these new-old nationalisms with their activists, their theorists, and their grass-root supporters. It is a book written out of love for and out of commitment to the peoples of the Fourth World." -- Provided by publisher.