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Mapping the Nation
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-13 - Publisher: Verso Books

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In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his influential and troubling ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis, nationalism has only continued to p
Map of a Nation
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Rachel Hewitt
Categories: History
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This “absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey”—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome”
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The Goddess and the Nation
Language: en
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Authors: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian