Description: This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.
Review Quotes:
"[City and Nation] reaches across several academic disciplines to assemble six historically and culturally specific studies into a single empirical point, that place (more specifically, the city) is the social foundation of people's national identity. This is an interesting and provocative idea."
--Audrey Sprenger, Contemporary Sociology