| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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data file |
| Series |
Space, place, and society
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Space, place, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-220) and index. |
| Summary |
Tricia Cusack explores the significance of painted riverscapes for the creation of national identities in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and America. Focusing on five rivers--the Hudson, the Volga, the Seine, the Thames, and the Shannon--the author shows how just as ancient river mythologies served the ends of powerful religious and political groups, modern riverscapes incorporated dominant, often religious conceptions of the nation. --from publisher description. |
| Contents |
Introduction: riverscapes and national identities -- The chosen people: The Hudson River School and the construction of American identity -- THe Victorian Thames: England's silver stream or Britain's "monster soup"? -- Impression of leisure on the Seine: national identity and forgetting in the French third republic -- "Our Russian essence": the Volga riverscape and cultural nationalism -- Shannon riverscapes: myth and modernity in the making of Ireland -- Naturalizing the nation: sacred riverscapes and the flow of history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rivers in art.
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Rivers in art. |
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Rivers -- Social aspects.
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Rivers. |
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Social aspects. |
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Nationalism.
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Nationalism. |
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Water and civilization.
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nationalism. |
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ART -- Art & Politics. |
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Water and civilization. |
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ART -- History -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cusack, Tricia. Riverscapes and national identities. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009041322 (OCoLC)318873780 |
| ISBN |
9780815650683 (electronic book) |
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081565068X (electronic book) |
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9780815632115 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0815632118 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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