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The Power and Politics of Flags
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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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Elliott & Thompson, London, 2017
298 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781783963034
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266 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 178396281X

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Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

Tim Marshall Prisoners of Geography könyvét már olvastam, ami külsőleg és belsőleg is nagyon hasonlít erre a könyvre.
Ez már nem volt annyira telitalálat, de azért tartalmazott sok-sok érdekes adatot.
Témája a különböző zászlók akár az országok zászlajai vagy az olimpia, ENSZ-é stb.

Megtudtam sok fontos és érdekes tényt ebben a témában, de nem lett annyira maradandó az élmény.

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Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

Azt talán túlzás állítani róla, hogy olvasmányos, de akit érdekel a téma (mármint a zászlók), annak biztos, hogy érdekes, és biztos, hogy tud újat mondani. Tele van információval az egész könyv, meg egy csomó sztorival a zászlókkal kapcsolatban, a mintájuk kialakulásáról, történelmükről, további verzióikról, furcsa szokásokról velük kapcsolatban stb. stb.
Egyedül az nem derült ki, mi alapján szelektált a szerző, miért került be az, ami bekerült, és – főleg – mi van azokkal, amik nem kerültek be. Mert rengeteg ország zászlajáról van szó benne, de messze nem az összesről…


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The five Scandinavian Cross flags are all based on the Danish flag, with its white cross on a red field. This is known as the Dannebrog and is considered to be the world’s oldest national flag, having been the recognized symbol of the country since the early 1200s (even if officially it is dated much later).

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

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The red Soviet hammer and sickle flag, another twentieth-century emblem that flew above the graves of tens of millions, has never had quite the same connection with evil in the Western mind as its Nazi counterpart, despite being the symbol of a system that killed so many civilians in so many countries, especially Russia and China, where millions starved to death. There are still admirers of the hammer and sickle who see in it a symbol of hope.

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

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In 1994 McDonald’s managed to offend many Muslims ahead of that year’s World Cup Finals by printing all the flags of the participating countries on its take-away bags. Saudi Arabia pointed out that it was not perhaps in the best possible taste for one of its sacred tenets to be crumpled up and thrown in a rubbish bin. Hundreds of thousands of bags were subsequently withdrawn.

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

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… the memorable line, ‘Live long and prosper Turkmenistan!’, which is probably the only unwitting reference to Star Trek in any national anthem ever.

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

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As with most countries which include the words ‘democratic’ and ‘republic’ in their names, it is neither.

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags

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The question is often asked: ‘What is Europe?’ and the answer is: ‘Depends who you ask.’

Tim Marshall: Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of Flags


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