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National symbols, fractured identities : contesting the national narrative
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- Creator
- Michael E. Geisler, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Middlebury, Vt. : Middlebury College Press ; Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 284 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781584654360, 1584654368, 9781584654377, 1584654376
- OCLC
- ocm56333990
- 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