Format:
XLII, 284 S.
ISBN:
1584654368
,
1584654376
Series Statement:
Middlebury bicentennial series in international studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction : what are national symbols, and what do they do to us? / Michael E. Geisler -- Religion and the secular nation -- National symbols in Jewish Israel : representation and collective memory / Tamar Mayer -- Toward an archaeology of national commemorations in the Balkans / Victor Roudometof -- National symbols and national narratives -- In the shadow of exceptionalism : Germany's national symbols and public memory after 1989 / Michael E. Geisler -- Russian symbols : nation, people, ideas / Richard Stites -- Counter narratives and contestations -- Lincoln in hell : class and confederate symbols in the American South / W. Scott Poole -- The gaucho as contested national icon in Argentina / Kathryn Lehman -- Painting landscapes : the place of murals in the symbolic construction of urban space / Neil Jarman -- Writing the nation in stone : capital cities and monuments as national symbols -- "Neither palace nor temple nor tomb" : the Lincoln memorial in the age of commercial reappropriation / Char Roone Miller -- Sadat's grave and the commemoration of the 1973 war in Egypt / Yoram Meital -- The making of a national capital : conflicts, contradiction, and contestations in Sri Jayawardhanapura / Nihal Perera
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Nation
;
Symbol
;
Emblem
;
Nation
;
Politisches Symbol
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Staatssymbol
;
Geschichte
;
Politisches Symbol
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Staatssymbol
;
Geschichte
;
Nation
;
Symbol
;
Emblem
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f3m3-aa
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