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Book Summary
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 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
ISBN-13
9781784786755
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Verso
Publishing Date
2016-09-13
Total Pages
240
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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 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