Ethnicity and Estate: The Galician Jacquerie and the Rwandan Genocide Compared.
In national historiography, estate (social) divisions are typically disregarded in favor of supposedly shared ethnicity, which is proposed to have united a given nation for centuries. Hence, the Polish national historiography is unable to account for the Galician Jacquerie (1846), when serfs were ki...
| Publicado en: | Nationalities Papers Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 684 - 704 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2022
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