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dc.contributor.authorSCHWARZENBACH, Alexisen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T12:11:51Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T12:11:51Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 1997en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5974
dc.descriptionDefence date: 13 December 1997
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. Urs Altermatt, Université de Fribourg ; Prof. John Brewer, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford (ext. supervisor) ; Prof. Luisa Passerini, EUI
dc.descriptionFirst made available online on 7 January 2020
dc.description.abstractPortraits of the Nation offers a fascinating insight into the construction and development of national identity in two multilingual countries—Belgium and Switzerland. This book not only shows that multilingualism was no obstacle for the development of national identity—in both countries it was used as a positive means of collective identification —it also demonstrates that other means of identification were much more important. These were found on a national and supra-linguistic level—in Belgium the Royal Family and in Switzerland the Alps—and on a local and sublinguistic level—in Belgium mainly the provinces and in Switzerland the cantons. This study also shows that, contrary to what might be expected, Belgium was often more successful than Switzerland in constructing and adapting its national identity, especially in the inter-war years. Combining written and iconographic sources found in the archives of the national banks, mints and Post Offices in Berne and Brussels this book furthermore fills in an important historiographical gap using stamps, coins and banknotes as historical sources for the first time. Often neglected by historians, Alexis Schwarzenbach successfully argues that these sources have to be seen as important lieux de mernoire and that they are ideally suited for the study of the interrelated topics of memory and identity.
dc.description.tableofcontents-- 1. Introduction -- 2. Decision-making 1880-1913 -- 3. Portraits 1880-1913 -- 4. The First World War -- 5. Inter-war decision-making -- 6. Portraits 1919-1933/34 -- 7. Portraits 1933/34-1939/40 -- 8. The Second World War
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHECen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/22068
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshPolitics in numismatics -- Belgium -- History
dc.subject.lcshPolitics in numismatics -- Switzerland -- History
dc.subject.lcshPostage stamps -- Belgium -- History
dc.subject.lcshPostage stamps -- Switzerland -- History
dc.subject.lcshBank notes -- Belgium -- History
dc.subject.lcshBank notes -- Switzerland -- History
dc.subject.lcshGroup identity -- Belgium -- History
dc.subject.lcshGroup identity -- Switzerland -- History
dc.subject.lcshBelgium -- Politics and government
dc.subject.lcshSwitzerland -- Politics and government -- 1848-
dc.titlePortraits of the Nation : stamps, coins and banknotes in Belgium and Switzerland, 1880-1945en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/204965
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