• DOI:10.1111/J.1467-9663.2007.00406.X
• Corpus ID: 55529057

A EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY? HERITAGE and SHARED HISTORIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

@article{Gorp2007AEC,
  title={A EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY? HERITAGE and SHARED HISTORIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION},
  author={Bouke van Gorp and Hans Renes},
  journal={Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie},
  year={2007},
  volume={98},
  pages={407-415}
}

• B. V. Gorp, H. Renes
• Published 1 July 2007
• Sociology
• Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie

Do the people in the European Union share a cultural identity? One important aspect of cultural identity is shared histories or common memories. Such histories can be presented by heritage. Heritage is those traces of the past a society chooses to preserve. Heritage is therefore also a way of defining oneself. To this day, the European Union has not yet compiled its own list of heritage. This paper analyses the World Heritage Sites of EU member states: sites that are considered to be of universal value. When taken together, what image of European history do these sites represent? Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.