Overview
- Considers the relationship between landscapes, heritage and national identity in modern Europe
- Explores how landscapes were mobilised in the development of national identities
- Illustrates the selective choice of various landscapes in identity formation
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hans Renes retired in 2021 as a historical geographer at Utrecht University and professor of heritage studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He published on many different aspects of landscape history of the Netherlands and Europe as well as on the relation between landscape heritage and planning. He is co-editor of the Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie and the recently launched Journal of European Landscapes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape, Heritage and National Identity in Modern Europe
Authors: Hans Renes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09536-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09535-1Published: 07 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09538-2Published: 08 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09536-8Published: 06 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 97
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: History, general, Cultural History, History of Modern Europe