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.

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Benedict Anderson

Politics & Government

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Die Erfindung der Nation. Zur Karriere eines folgenreichen Konzepts

CAMPUS

Benedict Anderson examina la creación y la difusión mundial de las "comunidades imaginadas" de la nacionalidad. Muestra cómo un regionalismo que se había creado en las Américas fue adoptado y adaptado por movimientos populares y por las potencias imperialistas en Europa, y en Asia y África por las resistencias antimperialistas.

Comunidades imaginadas. Reflexiones sobre el origen y la difusión del nacionalismo (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Neste livro notável, Benedict Anderson sai a campo para desfazer boa parte dos lugares-comuns a respeito do nacionalismo: longe de se confundir com o racismo ou o fascismo, longe de ser uma síndrome quase patológica, que faz má figura num mundo marcado pelas promessas da globalização, o sentimento nacional tem uma história bem precisa, rica e contraditória.

Comunidades Imaginadas (Em Portuguese do Brasil)

Companhia das Letras

Imagined community (Korean Edition)

Seo Ji Won

Verbeelde gemeenschappen : bespiegelingen over de oorsprong en de verspreiding van het nationalisme

Den Föreställda Gemenskapen

Spanning broad accounts of the development of nationalism and identity, and detailed studies of SE Asia, the book includes pieces on East Timor, where every Indonesian attempt to suppress national feeling has had the opposite effect; on the Philippines, where it is said that some horses eat better than some stable hands; on Thailand, where so much money can be made in elected posts that candidates regularly kill to get them; on the Filipino nationalist and novelist Jose Rizal for whom 'we mortals are like turtles - we have value and are classified according to our shells'; and a remarkable essay on Mario Vargas Llosa, detailing the fate of indigenous minorities at the hands of the modern state.

Spectre of Comparisons : nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the world

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Hayali Cemaatler

History

Metis Yayıncılık

Tantor and Blackstone Publishing

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