Capture the flag
Subtitle: the stars and stripes in American history
By: Arnaldo Testi ; translated by Noor Giovanni Mazhar.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814783221
Subjects: Flags -- United States -- History; Flags -- Social aspects -- United States; National characteristics, American; Patriotism -- United States -- History; Political culture -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Miscellanea; United States -- History, Military -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea
Work titles: Stelle e strisce.
Notes: Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Totem; title: pt. 1. Worship : the invention of a tradition; title: The spirit of 76; title: New cults for Old Glory; title: Flag etiquette; title: pt. 2. Freedom : whose freedom?; title: God and the flag; title: The land of the free; title: Multiple traditions; title: American jeremiad; title: pt. 3. Empire : frontiers old and new; title: More stars; title: Does the Constitution follow the flag?; title: Iwo Jima; title: Moonlanding; title: pt. 4. Patriots and dissenters : who owns the flag?; title: Desecration; title: Patriotic pop; title: Capture-the-flag.