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Title:Identity and the nation: the evidence of postage stamps
Author:Roberts, R.S.
Year:2006
Periodical:Heritage of Zimbabwe (ISSN 0556-9605)
Issue:25
Pages:32-41
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Subjects:postage stamps
commemorations
Whites
national identity
1900-1999
History, Archaeology
history
Abstract:After money, postage stamps are the most common public medium for displaying the identifying symbols of a State and its people. This paper investigates the designs of stamps issued in Southern Rhodesia and later Zimbabwe to commemorate events and personalities in the White history of this country. The paper covers the period from 1892 onward. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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