National Identity and Geopolitical Visions

Maps of Pride and Pain
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-13934-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

From the Third Reich to Bosnia, nationalism - a sense of a nation's place in the world - has been responsible for much bloodshed. Nationalism may be manipulated by political leaders or governments but it springs from the people. Something in the history and environment of a national group creates it. This volume aims to locate and analyze the myth of national identity and its value in creating pride, deflecting fear or legitimating aggression. A range of essays - on Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, Iraq, Serbia, Argentina, Australia, and India - illustrate the different manifestations of the geographical imagination across the countries of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dijink, Gertjan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The National Experience of Place; Chapter 2 The Country of Angst(Germany); Chapter 3 Absent Because of Empire (Britain); Chapter 4 The March of Civilization Destiny and Doubts (USA); Chapter 5 The Last Frontier (USA); Chapter 6 Peripheral Dignity and Pain (Argentina); Chapter 7; Chapter 8 The Eurasian Dilemma (Russia); Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11 A World in Itself (India); Chapter 12 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Gertjan Dijkink is Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Amsterdam.