Download or read book Flag Wars and Stone Saints written by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a single phenomenon. Illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.