ISBN:
178168359X
,
9781781683590
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 240 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), 1936-2015 Imagined communities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., 1936 - 2015 Imagined communities
DDC:
320.54
Keywords:
Nationalism History
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Nationalism
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
;
History
;
Nation
;
Nationalismus
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Nationalismus
Abstract:
'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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index
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