Imagined Communities av Benedict Anderson

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<b>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 (<i>The Guardian</i>).</b><br><br> The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. <i>Imagined Communities</i> remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. 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.<br><br> Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Follow