Creating a country through currency and stamps: State symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-147

  Wallach, Yair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; GEOPOLITICS; NATIONALISM; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; STATE BUILDING; SYMBOLISM;

PALESTINE;

EID: 78650332925     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: 14698129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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