Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism /

• Main Author: Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. 1936- (Benedict Richard O'Gorman) (συγγραρφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York ; Verso, 2006
• Edition: Rev. ed.
• Subjects: Εθνικισμός; Εθνικισμός > Ιστορία

'Imagined Communities' examines the creation & function of the 'imagined communities' of nationality & the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism & printing & the birth of vernacular languag...

Table of 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 geo-biography of Imagined communities.