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Author Lechner, Frank J

Title The Netherlands : globalization and national identity / Frank J. Lechner
Published New York : Routledge, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : map
Series Globalizing regions
Globalizing regions.
Contents Orange nation -- Reimagining the nation in the global age -- Debating the nation -- One nation without God -- "Keeping things together" -- Solidarity in the polder -- The nation in view -- In search of distinction -- Toward a cosmopolitan nationalism?
Summary The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That population is the fruit of globalization, and how the Dutch have responded to this broad cultural shift tells us a great deal about the changing nature of national identity in the age of globaliza
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-341) and index
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Subject Group identity -- Netherlands
Globalization -- Political aspects -- Netherlands
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Netherlands
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Globalization -- Political aspects
Globalization -- Social aspects
Group identity
Social conditions
Social policy
Globalisierung
Sozialpolitik
Politische Identität
Sociale geschiedenis.
Nationale identiteit.
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091037
Netherlands -- Social policy
Subject Netherlands
Niederlande
Nederland.
Form Electronic book
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