National Identity and Geopolitical Visions : Maps of Pride and Pain

Dijink, Gertjan

Routledge（1996/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415139342
• DDC分類 320.54

Full Description

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.

Contents

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;