{"id":52,"date":"2016-01-19T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:53:20","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #191966\"><em><strong>The postage stamp [\u2026] has an ideological density per square centimetre that is probably more concentrated than any other medium of cultural expression.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><br>\n\u2014 David Scott, Stamp Semiotics : Reading Ideological Messages in Philatelic Designs, 1997. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries use stamps to present themselves to their citizens and the world. Though small in scale, they are a kind of monument, memorializing independence and revolutions, legends and ambitions. With paper and ink, nations make claims to a territory, define their sovereignty, and promote their leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/politics-1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx021_1md_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"politics-1\" class=\"wp-image-29\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/politics-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx026md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"politics-2\" class=\"wp-image-68\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/politics-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx028_1md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"politics-3\" class=\"wp-image-70\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/politics-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"art-4\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/politics-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx031_1md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"politics-5\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postage stamp [\u2026] has an ideological density per square centimetre that is probably more concentrated than any other medium of cultural expression.&nbsp; \u2014 David Scott, Stamp Semiotics : Reading Ideological Messages in Philatelic Designs, 1997. Countries use stamps to present themselves to their citizens and the world. Though small in scale, they are a <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/1178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}