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Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism / Benedict Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York ; Verso, 2006.Edition: Rev. edDescription: xv, 240 p. : 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781844670864 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.54 AND 23 000811
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Contents:
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
Summary: "In this revised edition, Benedict Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?" "Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-233) and index.

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

"In this revised edition, Benedict Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?" "Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa."--BOOK JACKET.

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