Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and National Identity in Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 117-140

  Jäger, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003268260-8     Document Type: Chapter

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