National symbols, fractured identities : contesting the national narrative
Illuminates the insights national symbols offer into the historical process by which groups inscribe their interpretation of a nation's identity and collective memory at a given time period; and these inscriptions are transformed as the power to "tell thenational tale" shifts from one political group to another
Print Book, English, ©2005
Middlebury College Press ; Published by University Press of New England, Middlebury, Vt., Lebanon, NH, ©2005
xlii, 284 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
9781584654360, 9781584654377, 1584654368, 1584654376
56333990
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