He also explores the book's international publication and reception, from its first publication toward the end of the Cold War era to the present day. In a new afterword, Anderson examines the extraordinary influence of imagined communities. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their names?Īnderson examines the creation and global spread of the "imagined communities" of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe’s recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. He taught at Cornell University until his retirement, as an emeritus professor of international studies, in 2002. in government from Cornell University in 1967. He received a degree in classics from Cambridge University in 1957 and a Ph.D.
Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Benedict Richard OGorman Anderson was born in Kunming, China on August 26, 1936. 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.
This “sparkling” and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations-revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism ( The Guardian )
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