Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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Verso Books, 17 nov. 2006 - 256 sidor
What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
 

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Preface to the Second Edition
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
On the Geobiography of Imagined Communities
Bibliography
Index
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Om författaren (2006)

Benedict Anderson was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was Editor of the journal Indonesia and author of numerous books including A Life Beyond Boundaries, Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination.

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