Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe. Image cartographique : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Berge, Bjørn
Titre(s) : Nowherelands [Texte imprimé] : an atlas of vanished countries, 1840-1975 / Bjorn Berge ; [translated by Lucy Moffatt]
Traduction de : Landene som forsvant, 1840-1970
Publication : London : Thames & Hudson, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (240 p.) : ill. en coul., cartes ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. (p. 224-236). Index. - Titre original : Landene som forsvant, 1840-1970
Ouvrage en anglais, traduit du norvégien
A multitude of countries that once existed have since been erased from the map. Varying
vastly in size and shape, location and longevity, the fifty 'nowherelands' in this
book are united by one fact: all of them endured long enough to issue their own stamps.
Some of their names, such as Biafra or New Brunswick, will be relatively familiar.
Others, such as Labuan, Tannu Tuva, and Inini, are far less recognizable. But all
of these lost nations have stories to tell, whether they were as short-lived as Eastern
Karelia, which lasted only a few weeks during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1922, or as
long-lasting as the Orange Free State, a Boer Republic that celebrated fifty years
as an independent state in the late 1800s. Their broad spectrum reflects the entire
history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with its ideologies, imperialism,
waves of immigration, and conflicts both major and minor. The motifs and symbols chosen
for stamps have always served as a form of national self-presentation, an expression
of the aims and ambitions of the ruling authorities. Drawing on fiction and eye-witness
accounts as well as historical sources, Bjorn Berge's witty text casts an unconventional
eye on these lesser-known nations. Nowherelands is a different kind of history book
that will intrigue anyone keen to understand what makes a nation a nation
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Moffat, Lucy. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Géographie historique -- Cartes -- 19e siècle
Géographie historique -- Cartes -- 20e siècle
Timbres-poste
États disparus -- 19e siècle
États disparus -- 20e siècle
Sujet(s) géographique(s) :
Monde
Classement géographique : Monde
Genre ou forme : Atlas
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-500-51990-5 (rel.). - ISBN 0500519900
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456686439
Notice n° :
FRBNF45668643
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1840-1860. The two Sicilies : bottomless poverty and weary aristocrats ; Heligoland
: from island realm to bombing target ; New Brunswick : immigrants with the wool pulled
over their eyes ; Corrientes : stamps from the bakery ; Labuan : binge-drinking in
a seedy South Sea paradise ; Schleswig : Scandinavianism and martial music ; Danish
West Indies : panic sale of slave islands ; Van Diemen's Land : penal colony with
fearful stamps ; Elobey, Annobon and Corisco : anti-imperialism and nervous missionaries
; Vancouver Island : wooden temples ; 1860-1890. Obock : arms dealing and goat soup
; Boyaca : decadents at war ; Alwar : potty princes and sweet dessert ; Eastern Rumelia
: drawing-board country ; Orange Free State : hymn-singing and racism ; Iquique :
saltpetre war in a dusty landscape ; Bhopal : Burka-clad princesses ; Sedang : from
the Champs Elysées to Kon Tom ; Perak : tin on the brain ; 1890-1915. Ile Sainte-Marie
: civilized panic in a tropical Utopia ; Nandgaon : peaceful fanaticism ; Kiaochow
: a capricious emperor in a rotten game ; Tierra del Fuego : dictator in gold ; Mafeking
: boy scouts using diversionary tactics ; The Carolines : sea cucumbers for stone
money ; The canal zone : a Siberia in the Caribbean ; 1915-1925. Hejaz : stamps with
a bitter strawberry taste ; Allenstein : a summer of independence ; Cape Juby : mail
planes in the dessert ; South Russia : a white knight loses his grip ; Batum : oil
fever and bluebottles ; Danzig : sponge cake with Hitler ; Far Eastern Republic :
Utopians on the tundra ; Tripolitania : fascist air race in the cradle of Islamism
; Eastern Karelia : national romanticism and brooding woodland pathos ; Carnaro and
fiume : poetry and fascism ; 1925-1945. Manchukuo : at the epicentre of evil ; Inini
: mortal sins in an impenetrable rainforest ; Saseno : childhood paradise in the world's
most dismal place ; Tannu Tuva : closed country with eccentric stamps ; Tangier International
Zone : a modern-day Sodom ; Hatay : genocide and a rigged referendum ; The Channel
Islands : sabotage with stamps ; South Shetland Islands : penguins in the furnace
; 1945-1975. Trieste : a crossroads of history ; Ryukyu : systematic suicide ; South
Kasai : miserable Balubas and precious minerals ; The South Moluccas : spices and
terrorism ; Biafra : famine and proxy war ; Upper Yafa : mud houses and gaudy stamps.
