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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is a nonfiction work by historian and political scientist Benedict Anderson. First published in 1983, the book provides a highly influential account of the rise of nationalism and the emergence of the modern nation-state. Anderson sees the nation as a social construct, an ...
Imagined Communities Summary. Benedict Anderson ’s landmark study of nationalism, Imagined Communities, starts by rejecting the assumption that nations are a natural or inevitable social unit. Instead, Anderson describes the nation as a cultural construct, with a particular history rooted in the fall of monarchies and empires, as well as ...
Benedict Anderson (1983), Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso. 48 BENEDICT ANDERSON ~. nationality as a socio-cultural concept - in the modern world everyone can, should, will 'have' a nationality, as he or she 'has' a gender - vs. the irremediable
Analysis. Anderson finds two things distinctive about the states that formed in the Americas during the 18th and 19th centuries: they shared a language with their colonizers and their independence movements were led by wealthy elites, not by the masses. In fact, these elites were worried about violent rebellion from the masses, especially ...
Anderson’s life and academic career and about IC. Anderson was born in August 1936 in Kunming, south-west China, on the eve of the Japanese invasion of northern China.1 His father, James Carew O’Gorman Anderson, was a senior official in the Chinese Maritime Customs.2 In 1941 Anderson, his wife and their three children started back for his ...
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Jun 3, 2022 · This article seeks to overcome this problem by revisiting Benedict Anderson’s 12 account of the imagined community in dialogue with the theory of uneven and combined development. 13 Through the examination of identities in the English-realm-cum-British-empire from the 16th to the 18th century, I correct ambiguities in Anderson’s analysis, specifically his tendency to emphasise 15th/16th ...
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y o. 21. IMAGINEDCOMMUNITIESAs late as 1914, dynastic states made up the majority of the membership of the world political system, but, as we shall be noting in detail below, many dynasts had for some time been reaching for a 'national' cachet as the old principle of Legitimacy wi.
