Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Understanding Homelands
2. The Shifting Contours of the German Homeland
3. Italy's Forgotten Partition
4. Homelands and Change in a Stateless Nation
5. The Withdrawal of Homeland Territoriality in a Cross-National Perspective
6. Losing Homelands and Conflict
Conclusion

About the Author

Nadav G. Shelef is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Evolving Nationalism.

Reviews

Shelef (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) expertly employs a multiple case study approach (Germany, Palestine, Italy) in this methodologically sound, rigorously researched analysis of the nexus of territoriality, borders, and conflicts as applied to the amorphous definition of homeland. (Choice)