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Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” is the world-famous, seminal work on the origins, development, and spread of nationalism. Anderson investigates the creative processes behind the 'imagined communities' of nationality: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the emergence and decline of dynastic empires, the interaction of capitalism and print culture, and the formation of vernacular languages-of-state. Anderson’s influential thesis locates the roots of modern nationalism not simply in European ideologies, but in specific forms of social imagination made possible by mass media, print language, and revolutionary politics. The book synthesizes political theory, history, sociology, and anthropology to explain why and how people develop a sense of belonging to the nation—sometimes powerful enough to inspire both heroic deeds and extreme violence. The revised edition adds new chapters on the evolution of colonial and Third World nationalism. “Imagined Communities” remains the single most cited English-language text in the study of nationalism, shaping decades of academic debate as well as public discourse.

 

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition xi

1 Introduction 1

2 Cultural Roots 9

3 The Origins of National Consciousness 37

4 Creole Pioneers 47

5 Old Languages, New Models 67

6 Official Nationalism and Imperialism 83

7 The Last Wave 113

8 Patriotism and Racism 141

9 The Angel of History 155

10 Census, Map, Museum 163

11 Memory and Forgetting 187

 

Travel and Traffic: On the Geo-biography of Imagined Communities 207

Bibliography 230

Index 234