Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

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Title:

Author:

Anderson, Benedict.

ISBN:

9781844670864

Personal Author:

Anderson, Benedict.

Edition:

Revised ed.

Publication Information:

London [u.a.] : Verso, 2006.

Physical Description:

XV, 240 S.

Contents:

Introduction. -- Cultural roots. -- The origins of national consciousness. -- Creole pioneers. -- Old languages, new models. --- Official nationalism and imperialism. -- The last wave. -- Patriotism and racism. -- The angel of history. -- Census, map, museum. -- Memory and forgetting. -- Travel and traffic: on the geo-biography of Imagined communities.

Subject Term:

Nationalism -- History.

Nationalism.

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Summary

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject.
In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question- what makes people live, die and kill in the name of nations? He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa, and explores the way communities were created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing, and the birth of vernacular languages-of-state.
Anderson revisits these fundamental ideas, showing how their relevance has been tested by the events of the past two decades.
' S parkling, readable, densely packed.' Peter Worsley, The Guardian
' A brilliant little book.' Neal Ascherson, The Observer