Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition
A new edition of the definitive book on nationalism?over a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide.
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, die and kill in the name of nations? He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa, and explores the way communities were created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing, and the birth of vernacular languages-of-state. Anderson revisits these fundamental ideas, showing how their relevance has been tested by the events of the past two decades. more
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ProductReviews79/100 (33 Reviews)
Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-23-2008
- A must-read
No need to comment. This is one of the classics and a must for any student of nationalism. Even if you don't agree with Anderson's account on the origins of nationalism, you still have to read it.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-29-2008
- Insightful but dry.
This book is something of a classic of sociology but not a light read. Very briefly, the thesis of "Imagined Communities" is that political nations are the creation of modern communication networks (definition of modern: post-Gutenberg)....
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-13-2007
- Unreadable Gibberish
Though some interesting and provocative ideas are presented shedding some light on the idea of the rise of nationalism, this was largely a poorly written book that will not add an iota of understanding to what motivates human behavior.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-11-2007
- An amazing introduction
If you want a scholarly introduction to nationalism and its history, this is an excellent book to start with. Anderson begins with a discussion of how the concept of the nation first came into being, with emphasis on the factors that...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-23-2008
- A must-read
No need to comment. This is one of the classics and a must for any student of nationalism. Even if you don't agree with Anderson's account on the origins of nationalism, you still have to read it.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-29-2008
- Insightful but dry.
This book is something of a classic of sociology but not a light read. Very briefly, the thesis of "Imagined Communities" is that political nations are the creation of modern communication networks (definition of modern: post-Gutenberg)....
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-13-2007
- Unreadable Gibberish
Though some interesting and provocative ideas are presented shedding some light on the idea of the rise of nationalism, this was largely a poorly written book that will not add an iota of understanding to what motivates human behavior.
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