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Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America book cover

1st Edition

Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America

Edited By Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Richard Jenkins Copyright 2007
208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Some Questions About Flags  2. The Origin of European National Flags  3. Rebel With(Out) a Cause?: The Contested Meanings of the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South  4. The Star-Spangled Banner and ‘Whiteness’ in American National Identity  5. Union Jacks and Union Jills  6. Pride and Possession, Display and Destruction  7. Between the National and the Civic: Flagging Peace In, or a Piece of, Northern Ireland?  8. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart: Nation, Flag and Emotion in Denmark  9. A Flag for all Occasions?: The Swedish Experience  10. Nationalism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Flags  11. The Domestication of a National Symbol: The Private Use of Flags in Norway  12. Afterword

 

Biography

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and Research Director of CULCOM (Cultural Complexity in the New Norway), 2004-2009.

Richard Jenkins, trained as an anthropologist, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield.


 

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