Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition) - Softcover

Benedict Anderson

 
9781844670864: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition)
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ISBN 10: 1844670864 ISBN 13: 9781844670864
Publisher: Verso Books, 2006

Synopsis

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 function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.

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About the Author

Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and Imagined Communities.

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Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844670864
ISBN 13 
9781844670864
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240

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