Thomas Etzemüller
Landscape and Nation
Rhine - Dalarna - England

234 pp., paperback, numerous illustrations, € 39.00
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6100-2 (Bielefeld: transcript, 2022)

What do landscapes have to do with nationalism, social order and tourism? Three mythical landscapes - the Romantic Rhine, the Swedish province of Dalarna and the English Countryside - demonstrate this connection. Thomas Etzemüller shows how the imagination of national landscapes, the reconstruction of castles, farms or poets' houses and the development of tourism created specific national spaces - and how the realisation of these "ideal places of society" turned modern landscapes into a political force.

Reviews:

Geographical Journal, 2023

Historical Journal, 2023

H-Soz-Kult, 2023