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,Surrender: from Danzig to Gdańsk,ake district’. A century ago it was still an isolated rural area, a by-word in Danzig for rustic backwardness. Half a million Kashubians spoke a dialect which was more Slavonic than Germanic, but they were a people for whom any sense of identity beyond the immediate region was only beginning to emer

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Peaceful Reconquest: Montreal,come the standard shorthand description of the peculiar social arrangements that existed in a city of over a million French- and English-speakers where, two centuries after the fall of New France in 1760, only a quarter of the city’s inhabitants could speak the language of the other side (Levine 199

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Peaceful Contest: Brussels,nly or as a result of violence, as it did in Gdańsk. But it was a change which ran counter to the prevailing trend in the city’s hinterland — unlike the case of Montreal — and, for that reason, it remains contested. Belgium is unique in Europe as a state where the everyday language of most of the po

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The Failure of Chronic Violence: Belfast,two centuries been so unchanging and unremitting. It is a depressing thought that the ethnic warriors — Catholic and Protestant — who participated in Belfast’s early-nineteenth century riots would in many ways have felt quite at home among their descendants at the end of the twentieth century. They

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The Failure of Acute Violence: Jerusalem, has been contested for as long as Jerusalem. This arid but symbolically important hill town is said to have been conquered thirty-seven times. But after its capture from the Byzantines by the Arabs in 638 AD it remained, with the exception of the crusading period, under Muslim rule until 1918. The

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Conclusion,s skin colour, some societies attach particular significance to gradations of colour, while in others people who do not appear to be entirely ‘white’ are deemed to be, or deem themselves to be ‘black’. Today we tend to regard skin colour, or ‘race’, as the most potent and enduring ethnic marker. Yet

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