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A Joint Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Extract

All nation-states are creations of physical topography, historical circumstance, political claims, and cultural imagination. A country's identity may be the result of its material place, legal self-understanding, and (invented) national traditions, but it is also defined by certain founding myths and historical associations born of dreams and distance. The histories of the United States, Liberia, and Israel are obvious examples, in that their territories have become mythic “landscapes of memory” in their own right for many around the world, even among those who have never been there.

Type
Imagining Germany from Abroad: The View from Britain and the United States: A Coordinated Issue with German History
Copyright
Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2008

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