ABSTRACT
Walker Connor is the consummate comparativist and synthesizer. Above all, he is an intellectual adventurer, always disposed to run the risks inherent in juxtaposing sweeping longue durée historical patterns to yesterday’s and today’s news items. In this way, he is able to discern patterns in the seemingly chaotic and idiosyncratic nation-building process of different periods and places. He has thereby provided us with frameworks within which to situate our particular interests and case studies.
