Books reviewed in this article:Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives.Mark Pinson (ed.)The Muslims of Bosnia‐Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.H. T. Norris,Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World.Walker Connor,Ethnonationalism: The quest for understanding.Raymond W. Duncan and Paul G. Holman, Jr. (eds.),Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Conflict: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose (eds.),Constructions of Race Place and Nation.Dermot Keogh and Michael T. Haltzel (eds.),Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation.Oliver P. Rafferty,Catholicism in Ulster 1603–1983: An Interpretative History.Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmannet al.(eds.),Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition.Stephen Iwan Griffiths,Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Threats to European Secur