Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of NationalismWhat 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 the 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. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old. |
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Anderson this work is the bible of nationalism.There are moments of trance when followers of the drug of nationalism read it.It also gives headache to those who are afraid by the deluge of nationalism.People who want to do something of lasting value for their nations must read it.Some call nationalism the measles of humanity,but they tend to forget that this disease is curable through itself.After reading this book one understands the robust nature of nationalism and mythology.
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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 |
| 207 | |
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| Title | Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism |
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Verso, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0860915468, 9780860915461 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism |
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