Jack Child

Miniature Messages

The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical analysis of the use of Latin American postage stamps to communicate information and propaganda, focusing on how the stamps reveal official and unofficial governmental policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341994
• ISBN-10: 0822341999
• Artikelnr.: 23388419

Autorenporträt

Jack Child

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Semiotics, Popular Culture, Politics, and Stamps 13
2. An Overview of Latin American Postage Stamps 43
3. Internal Politics and Latin American Stamps 57
4. International Relations and Latin American Stamps 75
5. Argentina 95
6. The Falklands/Malvinas 124
7. South American Antarctica 142
8. Other Miniature Messages of Note 161
Conclusions 190
Notes 197
General Index 225
Index of Stamps 235