Landscape, Heritage and National Identity in Modern Europe

Renes, Hans

This book describes the way in which landscape and landscape heritage have been – and still are – used to define national identities. It shows how national narratives use different types of landscapes. Some nations use nature as their main point of reference, partly to circumcise conflicts between different ethnic groups. Other nations use agrarian landscapes, that are often describes as timeless and ‘rooted’. Again other nations use history as a major sources for defining identities. In these cases, myths of origins, ‘Golden Ages’ or wars and conflicts deliver the materials for national narratives. The final section describes how nation states developed new urban as well as rural landscapes as national showpieces. As landscapes are an important but under-researched aspect of nation-building, this book fills a gap in the study of nationalism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-10-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031095351

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09536-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 97