National symbols, fractured identities : contesting the national narrative /
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| Language: | English |
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Middlebury, Vt. : Lebanon, N.H. :
Middlebury College Press ; Published by University Press of New England,
[2005]
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| Series: | Middlebury bicentennial series in international studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.