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Imagined Communities

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Written by Benedict Anderson
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  • History > Survey Courses > World History – Prehistory to Present
  • Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Introduction to Cultural Studies
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The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism

The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations.

Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe’s recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.
Learn more about Benedict Anderson

About

The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism

The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations.

Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe’s recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.

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  • Imagined Communities
    Imagined Communities
    Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
    Benedict Anderson
    978-1-84467-484-8
    $9.99 US
    Ebook
    Verso
    Nov 17, 2006
  • Imagined Communities
    Imagined Communities
    Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
    Benedict Anderson
    978-1-84467-484-8
    $9.99 US
    Ebook
    Verso
    Nov 17, 2006

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