Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Paperback - 2006

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson’s brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, 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 kinship, 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 movements of anti-imperialist resistance in Asia and Africa.In a new afterword, Anderson examines the extraordinary influence of Imagined Communities, and the book’s international publication and reception, from the end of the Cold War era to the present day.

Details

• Title Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
• Author Benedict Anderson
• Binding Paperback
• Edition [ Edition: Repri
• Pages 240
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Verso, London
• Date 2006
• ISBN 9781844670864 / 1844670864
• Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
• Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006281800
• Dewey Decimal Code 320.54