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    <title>World directory of minorities</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Anderson, Bridget.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Minority Rights Group</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Minority Rights Group International</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1997</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1997</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xvi, 840 p. : maps ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>The World Directory of Minorities is an authoritative, concise and up-to-date reference book on the contemporary situation of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities worldwide. Covering more than 200 states and dependent territories, and over 700 minority groups, this region-by-region and country-by-country study provides a coherent and wide-ranging introduction to international, regional and local minority rights issues, complete with key bibliographical references and listings of organizations active in the field.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Preface / Alan Phillips -- Introduction to the Directory / Miles Litvinoff -- 1. North America / Alex Roslin and Carl Wilson -- 2. Central and South America and the Caribbean / Patrick Costello, Lindsey Crickmay and James Ferguson -- 3. Western Europe / Bridget Anderson -- 4. Central and Eastern Europe / Martyn Rady and Bogdan Szajkowski -- 5. The Commonwealth of Independent States / Anna Matveeva, Neil Melvin and Suzanne Pattle -- 6. The Middle East / David McDowall -- 7. North, West and the Horn of Africa / Julia Maxted and Abebe Zegeye -- 8. Central and Southern Africa / Chris Dammers and David Sogge -- 9. South Asia / Javaid Rehman and Nikhil Roy -- 10. East and South-East Asia / James Chin, David Hawk and Peter O'Neill -- 11. Oceania / John Connell -- Contemporary Legal Standards on Minority Rights / Patrick Thornberry -- Appendix. Basic Documents on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples / Edited by Patrick Thornberry.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Minority Rights Group ; preface by Alan Phillips ; contributors, Bridget Anderson ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>"Second edition"--P. [xiv].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ethnic groups</topic>
    <topic>Encyclopedias</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Minorities</topic>
    <topic>Encyclopedias</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">GN495.4 .W67 1997</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">305.56025 WOR</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">1873194366</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">97210587</identifier>
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