Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. “Anderson transformed the study of nationalism.” - The New York Times “One of the greatest.” - London Review of Books This world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations.
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