National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain

by Gertjan Dijink

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415139359
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/1996
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of 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;