Bøger af Nancy M. Wingfield

The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples.

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately-the construction of the Czech and German nations-as a single phenomenon. Illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.