 | Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By Benedict Anderson
ISBN: 9780860915461
Published: 1991
Number of Pages: 224
Edition: Updated
Binding: Paperback |
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Product Type: Book
Publisher: Verso
Description: What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? In this important work, Benedict Anderson focuses a much-needed clear eye on nationalism as cultural artefact, created and transformed through historical processes--a fated and thus pure attachment experienced every day through the connections language forges with a living and dead community.In selecting the genealogy of "thinking" the nation, Anderson chooses his trajectory well--thankfully reading not only from the social history of Europe, but also from the experiences of its colonies and other states across the globe (the armed conflicts of 1978--79 Indochina provided the immediate impetus for the original 1983 text). It is especially these states which Anderson's later revisions address, with his wise realisation that so-called "official nationalism" in colonised Asia and Africa was not transplanted without intervention from that of the dynastic states of 19th-century Europe. When dealing with such an emotive subject, Anderson thankfully avoids favouring rhetoric over grounded analysis. He thoroughly explains the role of print language in imagining community, particularly with the development of the novel set in a society to which the reader may or may not belong, but can recognise, and the newspaper, which, perhaps replacing morning prayers, is read every day by people who have a sense of their fellow readers' existence. The power of Imagined Communities ultimately lies in its applied resonances. The force of the argument of an "imagined community" is not only invaluable to sociologists or political economists, but it implicates each of us in compelling notions of identity and belonging whether our imagined community is with a nation or with others who buy, listen to and watch the same cultural products as ourselves. Essential reading for anyone interested in a history of the present. --Fiona Buckland |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
91010900 - LC control Number:
91-10900 - LC control Number:
91010900:
23356022National Bibliography Number:
GB91-16062International Standard Book Number:
0860913295:
0-86091-546-8:
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ad(ad)[a]Library of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
JC311 - Classification number:
JC'311'A656'1991 - Item number:
.A656 1991Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
20 - Classification number:
320.5/4 - Classification number:
320.5409Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Anderson - Personal name:
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. - Personal name:
Anderson, Benedict, - Numeration:
Benedict - Dates associated with a name:
1936- - Fuller form of name:
(Benedict Richard O'Gorman),Title Statement
- Title:
Imagined communities : - Title:
Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Title:
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of Nationalism - Remainder of title:
reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Benedict Anderson - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Benedict Anderson.Edition Statement:
Rev. and extended ed:
Rev. and extended ed.:
Rev. and extended ed., 2nd ed.:
Rev. ed:
Rev.ed.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
London - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
London : - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
London ; - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Verso - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Verso, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1991 - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1991.Projected Publication Date:
9109Physical Description
- Extent:
010 - Extent:
xv, 224 p. - Extent:
xv, 224 p. ; - Extent:
xv,224p. ; - Extent:
xv:224p - Dimensions:
23 cm. - Dimensions:
24 cm - Dimensions:
24 cm. - Dimensions:
25 cm - Dimensions:
25 cm.Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation:
1996General Note:
Cop. 5-6: 7th impression 1996.:
Previous ed.: 1983.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Bibliogr. - Bibliography:
Bibliography: 207-212. - Includes index. - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index. - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.Formatted Contents Note:
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:
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.Local Notes:
1Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
History - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Nationalism - General subdivision:
History - General subdivision:
History. - Geographic subdivision:
Asia, Southeastern.Index Term - Uncontrolled
- Uncontrolled term:
History - Uncontrolled term:
NationalismHolding Institution:
GOAU-403206:
PULC_160014
