Anderson Benedict - Imagined Communities Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This sparkling and world - famous work examines what drives people to live die and kill in the name of nations revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism (The Guardian). The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English - language work in the human sciences it is read around the world in more than thirty translations. Written with exemplary clarity this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America rather than to nineteenth - century Europe. Later this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level from high politics to popular culture through print literature maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia Latin America and Europe's recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.
Title: Imagined Communities Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Author(s): Anderson Benedict
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784786755
Pages: 256 Pages, None
Publication Date: 9/13/2016
Category: Nationalism