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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benedict R O'G Anderson |
ISBN: | 9781844670864 1844670864 |
OCLC Number: | 71266698 |
Description: | xv, 240 pages ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Benedict Anderson. |
Abstract:
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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"Anderson's knowlege of a vast range of relevant historical literature is most impressive; his presentation of the gist of it is both masterly and lucid." - New Statesman "Sparkling, readable, densely packed..." - Guardian "A brilliant little book." - Neal Ascherson, The Observer Read more...
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