EAN: 9781784786755

IMAGINED COMMUNITIES - BENEDICT ANDERSON KARTON...

What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation?
This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas  but was then adopted
and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry
for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating
groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and
reformulated at every level  from high politics to popular culture  and the way that they can
make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century  these debates on the nature
of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise  vying for influence  and old
empires decline  we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history  and
change.

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