ABSTRACT
The investigation of discourses - popular anthropology, popular geography, and tourism and consumer culture - has brought about relevant findings about the way in which knowledge about the Netherlands and the Dutch was created in the nineteenth century. In spite of different motivations and communicative aims of the investigated discourses, all discourses make use of similar imagery for communicating their messages. I have observed variations along the lines of inquiry as outlined in the Introduction and also in the way in which generalizations are made in each discourse.
