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National days/national ways : historical, political, and religious celebrations around the world
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National days/national ways : historical, political, and religious celebrations around the world

Author: Linda K Fuller
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Internal and external repercussions of holidays and celebrations in more than a dozen countries.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Linda K Fuller
ISBN: 0275972704 9780275972707
OCLC Number: 55488135
Description: vii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Argentina : Argentine national ways in politics : elites and caudillism / Susana N. Vittadini Andrés -- Australia : the bicentenary of Australia : celebration of a nation / Leanne White -- Canada : Canadian days : non-Canadian ways / Derek Foster -- China : from national day to national way : the story of October 1 / Chen Yanru -- China : national image on National Day and patriotic education in China : the 50th National Day of the People's Republic of China / Xu Xiaoge -- Ethiopia : holiday celebrations among the highlanders of Ethiopia / Tsegay Wolde-Georgis -- Ghana : globalization and broadcasting the Ghanian National Day / Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh -- Japan : Japan's National Foundation Day : lack of consensus leads to lack of celebration / Stephen M. Ryan -- Kuwait : Kuwait's National Day : four decades of transformed celebrations / Nibal K. Bourisly and Maher N. Al-hajii -- New Zealand : Waitangi Day : New Zealand's National Day / Parehau Richards and Chris Ryan -- Nigeria : nationalism, mass media, and the crisis of national identity in Nigeria / Mohammed Musa and Ayo Oyeleye -- Norway : Norway's 17th of May : a historical date and a day of national celebrations / Knut Mykland -- Romania : the Romanian way : from nationalism to privatism / Sorin Matei -- Singapore : reading Singapore's National Day : a case study in the rhetoric of nationalism / Linda K. Fuller -- South Africa : (re)building a nation : South Africa's Heritage Day as a site of renaming, reimaging, and remembering / Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman and Gust A. Yep -- Spain : national days throughout the history and the geography of Spain / Ignacio Molina A. de Cienfuegos and Jorge Martínez Bárcena -- Turkey : nation and celebration : an iconology of the Republic of Turkey / Halil Nalçaoglu -- Ukraine : in search of holidays : the case of Ukraine / Natalia Kostenko, Tatyana Androsenko, and Ludmila Males -- United States : Martin Luther King Day : a celebration of the American architect of the beloved community / Teixeira Nash and Irelene P. Ricks.
Responsibility: edited by Linda K. Fuller.

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Internal and external repercussions of holidays and celebrations in more than a dozen countries.

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