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Title National days/national ways : historical, political, and religious celebrations around the world / edited by Linda K. Fuller
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 350 pages)
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
Summary Internal and external repercussions of holidays and celebrations in more than a dozen countries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Holidays.
Special days.
Anniversaries.
anniversaries.
centennials.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Holidays (non-religious)
Anniversaries
Holidays
Special days
Nationalfeiertag
Feestdagen.
Form Electronic book
Author Fuller, Linda K.
ISBN 9780313085406
0313085404