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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A global approach to civic nationalisms; A brief history of the concept of civic nationalism; The concept of civic nationalism under attack; The continuing need for the concept of civic nationalism; Aglobal approach to civic nationalisms; Notes; 1. Power and weakness of civic nationalism in Switzerland, 1848-2014; Switzerland, a 'nation by choice'; Nation-building, phases of nationalism, and 'imagined communities'

In view of the fact that national maps were circulated in the 19th and early 20th century to strengthen people's national consciousness, this article inquires whether the six EC founding states have in turn been using maps of Europe or the territory encompassed by the EC members since the 1950s in order to promote a sense of supranational community among the citizenry. Postage stamps, mass-produced by the national postal administrations, serve as the source material for this investigation. The analysis, however, reveals that the four largest countries initially made little use of cartographic representations of Europe. Only in the course of the eastward enlargement of the EU did European maps begin to appear frequently on stamps. One explanation for this surprising finding is the fact that the European unification process aimed at territorial expansion right from the start, but that maps have the contrary effect of implying that borders are fixed. It was therefore only when the European division was overcome that European maps were increasingly used to represent the continent as a closed space.

Die in diesem Artikel vorgestellten Überlegungen sind das Ergebnis breitflächiger empirischer Untersuchungen von Zeitungen und Zeitschriften aus den USA, Kanada, Großbritannien und Frankreich. Sie rekonstruieren also die Verwendungen des Begriffs in denjenigen Ländern, die sich seit Entstehen des Begriffs als 'westlich' verstanden haben und deren Zugehörigkeit zum 'Westen' kaum je in Frage gestellt worden ist. Es wird also die Binnenperspektive 'des Westens' dargelegt. Da das Anliegen dieses Artikels konzeptionell ist, wird darauf verzichtet, Quellenmaterial zu zitieren, stattdessen nur auf weiterführende Literatur verwiesen, die die Sachverhalte, auf die in der Analyse des Begriffs des Westens Bezug genommen wird, näher erläutern.