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Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

'Imagined Communities' examines the creation & function of the 'imagined communities' of nationality & the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism & printing & the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe
Print Book, English, 2006
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Verso, London, 2006
History
xv, 240 pages ; 25 cm
9781844670864, 1844670864
71266698
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
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