| Description |
xv, 240 pages ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
'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 languages in early modern Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- History.
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| LC no. |
2006281800 |
| ISBN |
9781844670864 |
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1844670864 |
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