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The concept of the nation is central to modern understandings both of political community and of personal identity. Notions of national distinctiveness and of international competition dominate the ways in which we think about history, geography, culture, economics and human character. The essays in this book seek to understand the complex ways in which nations are imaginatively constructed. Dealing chiefly with British and German examples, but relating these examples to wider conceptual and theoretical issues, the essays illustrate both the diversity and the potential of a cultural approach to nationhood and nationalism. The book is conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit, drawing insights from intellectual history, art history, geography and literary studies, and tracing the implications of nationalist habits of thought across fields, as varied as historiography, cartography, visual art, science and economic statistics.