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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822341999
ISBN-139780822341994
eBay Product ID (ePID)63656287
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicAntiques & Collectibles, History, Stamps, Latin America / Central America, Latin America / South America
AuthorJack Child
IllustratorYes
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 In.
Item Height0.8 In.
Item Width6.1 In.
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN2007-049446
Book TitleMiniature Messages : The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps
Dewey Decimal769.5698
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
SynopsisAn analysis of the messages about history, culture, and politics that Latin American nations have encoded in the design and text of their postage stamps., In Miniature Messages , Jack Child analyzes Latin American postage stamps, revealing the messages about history, culture, and politics encoded in their design and disseminated throughout the world. While postage stamps are a sanctioned product of official government agencies, Child argues that they accumulate popular cultural value and take on new meanings as they circulate in the public sphere. As he demonstrates in this richly illustrated study, the postage stamp conveys many of the contestations and triumphs of Latin American history. Child combines history and political science with philatelic research of nearly forty thousand Latin American stamps. He focuses on Argentina and the Southern Cone, highlighting stamps representing the consolidation of the Argentine republic and those produced under its Peronist regime. He compares Chilean stamps issued by the leftist government of Salvador Allende and by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Considering postage stamps produced under other dictatorial regimes, he examines stamps from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. Child studies how international conflicts have been depicted on the stamps of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, and he pays particular attention to the role of South American and British stamps in establishing claims to the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and to Antarctica. He also covers the cultural and political history of stamps in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Grenada, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela and elsewhere. In Miniature Messages , Child finds the political history of modern Latin America in its "tiny posters."
Publication Year2008
Dewey Edition22
FormatTrade Paperback
Reviews"The thoroughness and in-depth coverage of Miniature Messages are remarkable. Jack Child is probably the only person to possess the requisite knowledge and background to combine political science, history, and philately so well."-- Frank Nuessel , author of Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, " Miniature Messages is a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture."- David Bushnell , author of Simón Bolívar: Liberation and Disappointment, "The thoroughness and in-depth coverage of Miniature Messages are remarkable. Jack Child is probably the only person to possess the requisite knowledge and background to combine political science, history, and philately so well."- Frank Nuessel , author of Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, "Miniature Messages is a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture." David Bushnell, author of Simon Bolivar: Liberation and Disappointment"The thoroughness and in-depth coverage of Miniature Messages are remarkable. Jack Child is probably the only person to possess the requisite knowledge and background to combine political science, history, and philately so well." Frank Nuessel, author of Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, “ Miniature Messages is a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture.â€�- David Bushnell , author of Sim n Bol var: Liberation and Disappointment, "Miniature Messagesis a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture." David Bushnell, author ofSimon Bolivar: Liberation and Disappointment"The thoroughness and in-depth coverage ofMiniature Messagesare remarkable. Jack Child is probably the only person to possess the requisite knowledge and background to combine political science, history, and philately so well." Frank Nuessel, author ofLinguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, "To the non-stamp collector the world of philately can be a somewhat desiccated subject. However, here in a well-illustrated, thorough and entertaining book, Jack Child, having examined some 40,000 Latin American postage stamps certainly manages to engage the interest of the wider reader. . . . [Cild] has managed to marshal numerous miniature messages into a fascinating and valuable text." - Igor Cusack, Bulletin of Latin American Research, "Child's book is a careful analysis of the body of existing Latin American stamps. Making use of a wide array of cultural studies knowledge about Latin America, he examines the stamps as minitexts, not quite as one might a poem, but as bounded complexes of semiotic meaning. The result is fascinating and the first such analysis of the Latin American corpus. It is important to note that this study has been published by Duke University Press, the premier forum for Latin American cultural studies and that the book comes accompanied with a CD of the actual stamps themselves, organized in an accessible registry." - David William Foster, Chasqui, "Professor Child. . . is that rare combination of social scientist and philatelist and bravely attempts to use the principles and methods of social science to analyse the politics of Latin-America postage stamps. . . . The study. . . is fascinating because of its breadth, his commitment to philately and the attempt to find explanations for differences in the choice, style, composition and production of postage stamps." - The London Philatelist, " Miniature Messages is a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture."-- David Bushnell , author of Simón Bolívar: Liberation and Disappointment, "The passion and expertise with which this book is written confirm, in the author's own words, that it has been a 'labour of love.' Beautifully written and illustrated, Miniature Messages also offers a colourful and engaging tool for teaching Latin American studies, an approach taken by the author throughout a teaching career dedicated to improving understanding of the region whose students, we can speculate, must clearly have been among the luckiest on campus." - Gavin O'Tolle , Latin American Review of Books, " Miniature Messages is a trailblazing study that demonstrates how an unfamiliar approach can throw light on different aspects of Latin American history, politics, and culture."-- David Bushnell , author of Simn Bolvar: Liberation and Disappointment, “The thoroughness and in-depth coverage of Miniature Messages are remarkable. Jack Child is probably the only person to possess the requisite knowledge and background to combine political science, history, and philately so well.â€�- Frank Nuessel , author of Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, "Child's book is a significant contribution to the argument that academia should expand subject legitimacy to a broader range of materials. It has also got great stories about the complex world of Latin American politics and the role of government propaganda." - Lincoln Cushing, A Contracorriente
Table Of ContentList 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
LC Classification NumberHE6185
Number of Pages284 pages
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