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Worth dying for : the power and politics of flags

By: Marshall, Tim
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2017.Description: 266 p. : maps, col. ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781783962815Subject(s): Flags -- Political aspects | Emblems, National -- Political aspects | SymbolismDDC classification: 306.2 MA WO Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?; For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob.; From the renewed sense of nationalism in China, to troubled identities in Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the symbols, old and new, that people are rallying round.; In nine chapters (covering the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, international flags and flags of terror), Tim Marshall draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting experience to reveal the histories, the power and the politics of the symbols that unite us - and divide us.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		306.2 MA WO (Browse shelf) Available Jan2019 T0061260
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The map on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references and index

Stars and the stripes
Union and the Jack
Cross and the crusades
Colours of Arabia
Flags of fear
East of Eden
Flags of freedom
Flags of revolution
Good, the bad and the ugly.

When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?; For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob.; From the renewed sense of nationalism in China, to troubled identities in Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the symbols, old and new, that people are rallying round.; In nine chapters (covering the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, international flags and flags of terror), Tim Marshall draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting experience to reveal the histories, the power and the politics of the symbols that unite us - and divide us.

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