A Flag Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of National Symbols Marshall TimPaperback
A Flag Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of National Symbols Marshall TimPaperback Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times…
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A Flag Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of National Symbols Marshall TimPaperback
Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, provides "an entertaining whistle-stop tour of world flags" (Library Journal)--how their power is used to unite and divide populations and intimidate enemies.For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. Burn them. We wave them.
And still, in the twenty-first century, we die for them. March under their colors. Flags fly at the UN, on Arab streets, 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 it's important to understand the symbols, old and new, that people are
Worth Dying for Marshall Tim