National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain

ISBN-13: 9780415139342 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 200 str.

Gertjan Dijkink; G. Dijkink;Dijink Gertjan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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