Article: Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contact Hypothesis.

By H. D. Forbes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 304p. $30.00.

Milton J. Esman, Cornell University

The academic literature on ethnic conflict addresses two problems: the causes of ethnic conflict and how they can be managed or resolved. This book explores the first of these problems and also aspires to demonstrate the limitations of empiricism in the social sciences. It is intended for professional social scientists, not for concerned laymen or undergraduates. Much of it surveys and evaluates the treatment of ethnic conflict by other scholars, its style is rigorous and astringent, and it contains little empirical information. With its critical ...

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