Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Revised Edition)
Recommended by Jon Calame, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #27 in Political Theory, Ranked #31 in Anthropology — see more rankings.
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality.
Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between... more
Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between... more
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Jon Calame We looked into divided cities not because we had a morbid fascination with these traumatised cities, but because they seemed to be a keyhole through which you could glimpse this larger phenomenon relatively clearly. (Source)
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- #39 in Academia
- #47 in Graduate School
- #63 in Identity
- #40 in International Relations
- #95 in Marxism
- #32 in Political Science
- #70 in Research
- #61 in Social Sciences
- #68 in Sociology
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