Antony Alcock recounts four stages in the history of regional cultural minority protection: protection of religious minorities and the rise of cultural nationalism before 1914; attempts to assimilate minorities between the wars together with the League of Nations' system of protection; neglect of the complex issues in minority protection after 1945, leading in many cases to violence; and finally the renaissance of cultural minorities in the west, while in the east the new states after the fall of communism have had difficulties in coming to terms with their minorities.

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University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Antony Alcock

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ANTONY ALCOCK is Professor of European Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He specialises in the problems of cultural minorities and culturally divided communities. He was involved as a negotiator in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland. He is author of The History of the South Tyrol Question, co-editor of The Future of Cultural Minorities and has published many articles on Europe's minorities.

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Book Title: A History of the Protection of Regional Cultural Minorities in Europe
Book Subtitle: From the Edict of Nantes to the Present Day
Authors: Antony Alcock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977248
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65261-9Published: 19 July 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-97724-8Published: 19 July 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 279
Topics: European History, Modern History, Ethnicity Studies, International Relations, Human Rights

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