Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements

For those who cannot quite remember what the capital of Meghalaya is or who the Ingrian people are, this is a most helpful reference book. The only common characteristic of the "nations" cataloged here is that they are not represented by nation-states. Some, like Scotland, are familiar, but most are obscure. Each entry provides basic facts and figures on population, geography, religion, and language, as well as a capsule history (whose accuracy, I suspect, might be debated by the peoples in question) of how each nation came to be.