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Article: Book reviews -- Geography and National Identity edited by David Hooson
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- Economic Geography
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- January 1, 1996
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Geography and National Identity. Edited by David Hooson. Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series 29. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994.
The collection of essays in this volume catalogue what Hooson claims to be a return of national identity and of geography. The book's purpose is to provide "a sampling of the interplay of two of the most powerful movements of our time: our continuing sense of group identity, distinct from others of our species, and our consciousness of connections with our natural environments and the global context, both essentially geographical concepts which are at the same time of immemorial antiquity and of present and future urgency. Geography and ...