Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

by ANDERSON, BENEDICT

• ISBN13: 9780860915461
• ISBN10: 0860915468
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1991-07-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

Anderson's seminal work shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xi
1 Introduction	1	(8)
2 Cultural Roots	9	(28)
3 The Origins of National Consciousness	37	(10)
4 Creole Pioneers	47	(20)
5 Old Languages, New Models	67	(16)
6 Official Nationalism and Imperialism	83	(30)
7 The Last Wave	113	(28)
8 Patriotism and Racism	141	(14)
9 The Angel of History	155	(8)
10 Census, Map, Museum	163	(24)
11 Memory and Forgetting	187	(20)
Bibliography	207	(6)
Index	213