Riverscapes and national identities

Inhoud

1. Introduction: Riverscapes and National Identities -- 2. The Chosen People: The Hudson River School and the Construction of American Identity -- 3. The Victorian Thames: England's Silver Stream or Britain's "Monster Soup"? -- 4. Impressions of Leisure on the Seine: National Identity and Forgetting in the French Third Republic -- 5. "Our Russian Essence": The Volga Riverscape and Cultural Nationalism -- 6. Shannon Riverscapes: Myth and Modernity in the Making of Inland -- 7. Naturalizing the Nation: Sacred Riverscapes and the Flow of History.