Imagined Communities (New)

by Anderson,Benedict

• ISBN13: 9781844670864
• ISBN10: 1844670864
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Majors Publishing

Summary

"In this revised edition, Benedict Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?" "Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Cultural Roots	9	(28)
The Origins of National Consciousness	37	(10)
Creole Pioneers	47	(20)
Old Languages, New Models	67	(16)
Official Nationalism and Imperialism	83	(30)
The Last Wave	113	(28)
Patriotism and Racism	141	(14)
The Angel of History	155	(8)
Census, Map, Museum	163	(24)
Memory and Forgetting	187	(20)
Travel and Traffic: On the Geo-biography of Imagined Communities	207	(23)
Bibliography	230	(4)
Index	234