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German History 2008 26(4):455-456; doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghn044
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved.

Imagining Germany from Abroad: The View from Britain and the United States

A Joint Preface

Paul Betts, Maiken Umbach and Ken Ledford

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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’ . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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