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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? In this important work, Benedict Anderson focuses a much-needed clear eye on nationalism as cultural artefact, created and transformed through historical processes–a fated and thus pure attachment experienced every day through the connections language forges with a living and dead community.In selecting the genealogy of “thinking” the nation, Anderson chooses his trajectory well–thankfully reading not only from

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