Book · 1983 · Nonfiction

Imagined Communities

Name: Imagined Communities
Author: Benedict Anderson

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

Verso · 256 pages

★ 6.3 editorial score

Nations are imagined communities, Anderson argues, assembled by print: strangers reading the same newspapers and novels came to feel like one people. He gave the study of nationalism its vocabulary.

Genre

Political history History

Subject

Nationalism

Time

1983

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