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Imagined Communities

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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 plitical 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 capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas awas modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa.

This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discuses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which, all over the world, nations came to image themselves as old.

Benedic Anderson is Aaron Binenkob Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Java in a Time of REvolution, Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era and Language and Power: Exploring Cultures in Indonesia.

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320.5 AND i

Publisher

London : Verso., 1991

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xvi; p. 224; 24 cm

Language

English

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0-86091-329-5

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320.5

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Ed. Revisi 1991

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nasionalisme
ideologi politik

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