Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Brossura

Anderson, Benedict

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ISBN 10: 0860915468 ISBN 13: 9780860915461

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 1991

Riassunto

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 the 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 territorialisation 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 was 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 discusses 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 imagine themselves as old.

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Recensione:

“... a brilliant little book.”—Neal Ascherson, The Observer

“... sparkling, readable, densely packed...”—Peter Worsley, Guardian

L'autore:

Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and Imagined Communities.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0860915468
• ISBN 13: 9780860915461
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240