'It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (Anderson, 1991). What does Benedict Anderson mean by the concept of “imagined communities” anyway? Well, if we go straight to the horse’s mouth, here’s the skinny on the meaning of that admittedly rather lofty proposition: We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. CONTENTS: Introduction Cultural roots The origins of national consciousness Creole pioneers Old languages, new models Official nationalism and imperialism The last wave Patriotism and racism The angel of history Census, map, museum Memory and forgetting Travel and traffic: on the geobiography of Imagined Communities. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the movements of anti-imperialist resistance in Asia and Africa.' - Publisher. 'This book 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 kinship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space.

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.'.

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. 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.

In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the ?imagined communities? of nationality. From the blurb: '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. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of institutional library on the title).

The imagined community