Lyn Spillman, Lynette P. Spillman

Nation and Commemoration

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Produktbeschreibung

What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States and Australia to show how national identities can emerge from processes of 'cultural production'. She systematically analyses the symbols and meanings of national identity in these two 'new nations', identifying changes and continuities, similarities and differences in how visions of history, place in the world, politics, land, and diversity have been used to express nationhood. The result is a deeper understanding, not only of American and Australian national identities, but also of the global process of nation-formation.

Table of contents:
1. Comparing national identities; 2. 'Every-one admits that commemorations have their uses': producing national identities in celebration; 3. 'Our country by the world received': centennial celebrations in 1876 and 1888; 4. 'To remind ourselves that we are a united nation': bicentennial celebrations in 1976 and 1988; 5. Making nations meaningful in the United States and Australia.

What are the experiences and symbols which define nationhood? Nation and Commemoration focuses on the major centennial and bicentennial celebrations to examine how two similar sets of people, Australians and Americans, have created and recreated their different national identities.

How US and Australian national identities formed and represented in their bi/centennial celebrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521574327
• ISBN-10: 0521574323
• Artikelnr.: 21216772

Inhaltsangabe

1. Comparing national identities; 2. 'Every-one admits that commemorations
have their uses': producing national identities in celebration; 3. 'Our
country by the world received': centennial celebrations in 1876 and 1888;
4. 'To remind ourselves that we are a united nation': bicentennial
celebrations in 1976 and 1988; 5. Making nations meaningful in the United
States and Australia.