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Imagined Communities:

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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Verso, 1991 - Political Science - 224 pages
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality.
  

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User Review  - Matt Ely - Goodreads

An excellent and simple account of the ways in which societies only very recently started to define themselves according to their nationhood. How did these arbitrary lines in the sand become emotional ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Cultural Roots
9
The Origins of National Consciousness
37
Creole Pioneers
47
Old Languages New Models
67
Official Nationalism and Imperialism
83
The Last Wave
113
Patriotism and Racism
141
The Angel of History
155
Census Map Museum
163
Memory and Forgetting
187
Bibliography
207
Index
213
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About the author (1991)

Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.

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