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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Imagined Communities Reflections Rev Editionby Benedict Anderson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 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 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 develpment of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which, all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old. Review:{Anderson} is Professor of Government and Asian Studies at Cornell University and a specialist on Indonesia. The illogical and bitterly hostile nationalisms of contemporary South East Asia provide his Leitmotif, but most of the text is concerned with other periods and other parts of the map. . . . The book is about the 'idea' of the nation state; how and where it came into being; how it is used by power-hungry politicians as a justification for their nefarious actions. It is a fascinating topic. Anderson's knowledge of a vast range of relevant historical literature is most impressive; his presentation of the gist of it both masterly and lucid. New Statesman Synopsis:A view of Islamic civilization that runs counter to that provided by 19th-century Western Orientalists and 20th-century Islamic fundamentalists. The novels cover a vast period, beginning with the conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century, via the liberation of Jerusalem by the armies of Saladin in the 12th century, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire. Synopsis:Anderson's essay shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and were adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index. Table of ContentsIntroduction — 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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