ulation of the United States.
Limiting the book to claims of autonomy based on minority status also leaves out those whose claim to autonomy is based on ideology. The American Revolution, for example, was fought because of fundamental differences related to politics, not because of ethnic, religious, or linguistic differences. And in the United States, efforts at separatism continue, again based on ideology. The emergence of the militia movement has brought attention to the activities of white separatists. These separatists are members of the dominant culture, but the widening ideology gap between extremists and conservatives in the United States has brought with it a call for autonomy among those who contend there can be no reconciliation of beliefs.
Thus Lapidoth could have included one or two case studies, if some exist, of quests for autonomy based on differences in ideology. Granted, this might have meant analyzing certain historical cases. However, these cases, particularly if they involved groups in the United States, might have more
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