Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America
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Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America

About this book

Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities.

This multi-disciplinary collection offers case studies and comparisons of flag history, uses and controversies.

This book brings together a dozen scholars, from varying national and disciplinary backgrounds, to offers a cluster of close readings of flags in their social contexts, mostly contemporary, but also historical. Case studies from Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States explore ways in which flags are contested, stir up powerful emotions, can be commercialised in some contexts but not in others, serve as quasi-religious symbols, and as physical boundary markers; how the same flag can be solemn and formal in one setting, but stand for domestic bliss and informal cultural intimacy in another.

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Yes, you can access Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America by Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Richard Jenkins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Figures
  5. Notes On Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Some Questions About Flags
  8. 2. The Origin of European National Flags
  9. 3. Rebel With(out) a Cause?: The Contested Meanings of the Confederate Battle Flag In the American South
  10. 4. The Star-Spangled Banner and ‘Whiteness’ In American National Identity
  11. 5. Union Jacks and Union Jills
  12. 6. Pride and Possession, Display and Destruction
  13. 7. Between the National and the Civic: Flagging Peace In, or a Piece of, Northern Ireland?
  14. 8. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart: Nation, Flag and Emotion In Denmark
  15. 9. A Flag for All Occasions?: The Swedish Experience
  16. 10. Nationalism and Unionism In Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Flags
  17. 11. The Domestication of a National Symbol: The Private Use of Flags In Norway
  18. 12. Afterword
  19. Bibliography