What capital cities say about state and nation building

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 111-140

  Schatz, Edward ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; POST-COLONIALISM; STATE BUILDING;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 2942657035     PISSN: 13537113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13537110390444140     Document Type: Article

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