Stamps, Nationalism and Political Transition (Hardcover)

This book explores how states in political transition use stamps to promote a new visual nationalism. Stamps as products of the state and provide small pieces of information about a state's heritage, culture, economies and place in the world. These depictions change over time, reflecting political and cultural changes and developments. The volume explores the transition times in more than a dozen countries from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. Specifically addressed are the stamp topics, issues and themes in the years before and after such major changes occurred, for example, from a European colony to political independence or from a dictatorship to democracy. The authors compare the personalities, histories, and cultural representations "before" the transition period and how the state used the "after" event to define or redefine its place on the world political map. The final three chapters consider international themes on many stamp issues, one being stamps with Disney cartoon characters, another on "themeless" Forever stamps, and the third on states celebrating women and their accomplishments. This volume has wide interdisciplinary relevance and should prove of particular interest to those studying geopolitics, political transition, visual nationalism, soft power and visual representations of decolonializing.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Stanley D. Brunn
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	398
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-50120-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-367-50120-1
Barcode:	9780367501204

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