What is it about?
The ways in which Americans have turned to landscape as a ideological support for national identity and for the idea of Americans as a modern 'chosen people' following Anthony Smith's discussion of that concept.
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Why is it important?
At a time when American identity(ies) seem less assured, this discussion of the historical dimensions of what aspect of that identity is timely.
Perspectives
Writing this article was an opportunity to develop some of Anthony Smith's arguments about chosen peoples and sacred landscapes in an American context, but also an opportunity to highlight the continuities, and the challenges, that nationalism in the United States faces today.
Susan-Mary Grant
University of Newcastle
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This page is a summary of: Promised land, chosen people: the landscapes and ligaments of American nationalism, Nations and Nationalism, April 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nana.12406.
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