National Identity and Geopolitical Visions: Maps of Pride and Pain [Paperback]

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.This extraordinary and truly international range of essays illustrates the different manifestations of the geographical imagination by locating myths of national identity and analysing their value in terms of pride, fear and aggression.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;Gertjan Dijkink is Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Amsterdam.US? 1996 Gertjan Ditkink