Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 311 страница
Why do nations come into conflict? What factors lead to the horrors of ethnic cleansing? This timely book offers clear-eyed answers to these questions by exploring how national identity is shaped by place, focusing especially on Serbia, Hungary, and Romania. Moving beyond studies of nationalism that consider only the economic and geostrategic value of territory, George W. White shows that the very core of national identity is intimately bound to specific places. Indeed, nations define themselves in terms of spaces that have historical, linguistic, and religious meaning, as Serbs have clearly demonstrated in Kosovo. These territories are concrete expressions of a nationAIs identity, both past and present. With his detailed analysis of the places that define national identity in Southeastern Europe, White convincingly shows why territorial disputes so often escalate into war.
 

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Introduction
1
The Nation in Its Spatial Context
15
Southeastern European Nationalism in Its Temporal and Spatial Context
45
Hungary and the Hungarians
67
Romania and the Romanians
119
Serbia and the Serbs
179
Conclusion
249
Selected Bibliography
265
Index
297
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George W. White is assistant professor of geography at Frostburg State University.

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