National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain

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Routledge, 1. nov. 2002 - 210 sider
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.
 

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Destiny and Doubts
49
The Last Frontier
59
Peripheral Dignity and Pain
72
The Eurasian Dilemma
95
The Empire of Revenge
109
Totally Lost?
119
A World in Itself
128
Conclusion
139
Notes
148
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Gertjan Dijkink is Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Amsterdam.

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