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Building Nations, Transforming Landscape

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2007

CATHERINE BRICE
CATHERINE BRICE*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Humanities, Université de Paris XII-Val-de-Marne, 61 av. du Général de Gaulle, 94010 Creteil, France; [email protected].
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Contemporary European History , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 109 - 119
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4 O. Zimmer, ‘In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40, 4 (October 1998), 637–65. Walter does not refer to Zimmer's work, though it offers some good illustrations of the process.

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7 2nd edn (London: Verso, 1991).