Stamps, Nationalism and Political Transition

ISBN-13: 9780367501204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 424 str.

Stanley D. Brunn

Opis

This book explores how states in political transition use stamps to promote a new visual nationalism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Stamps as symbols of a visual nationalism  Chapter 1—Images, semiotics and political transitions: Case studies of first issues from eight nations  Chapter 2—Using China’s stamp issues to document economic and political changes  Chapter 3—Post-liberation Korea – The first postage stamps: A comparative semiotic study of nation building in North and South Korea  Chapter 4—From the Netherlands East Indies to Indonesia: A philatelic iconography of political upheaval  Chapter 5—Kazakhstan’s first twenty-five years of postage stamps: Highlighting nature, nationalism, and selective Soviet memory  Chapter 6—Imaging political turmoil through postage stamps in the heart of Africa: Congo/Zaire 1950-1971 from colonialism to national identity  Chapter 7—Couriers of change: The semiotics of Senegalese postage stamps  Chapter 8—"Non!" visible: How Guinée stamped its political leadership on Africa's decolonization, 1958-1962  Chapter 9—Three marked transitions in Ethiopia’s stamp issues: 1960s to present  Chapter 10—Transitions in postage stamp iconography: From apartheid to democracy in South Africa  Chapter 11—From UN-mandated territory to independent Namibia  Chapter 12—Mauritius and its politics on stamps, 1958-1977  Chapter 13—History as stamped by postage stamps: Poland’s transitions in the 20th century  Chapter 14—Estonia on stamps: Abrupt and smooth periods of political transition  Chapter 15—The breakup of Yugoslavia: Territorial disintegration and political transition documented through images on stamps, 1986-2010  Chapter 16—Postage stamps as political transition and integration: The case of North Cyprus Europa stamps 1975 and 1998  Chapter 17—Stamps of the Palestinian Authority: Asserting national identity while under occupation, 1994-2019  Chapter 18—Cuba: The evolution of revolutionary stamps  Chapter 19—Local political upheaval and global cultural appropriation: The postage stamps of Grenada, 1974-1988  Chapter 20—Cartooning islands for fun and profit: The proliferation of Disney stamps  Chapter 21—Reading contemporary America through Forever stamp themes: A visual analysis and interpretation  Chapter 22—Feminine philately: Global unevenness in celebrating women on stamps

O autorze

Stanley D. Brunn is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.