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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Am

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the

Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the s

Benedict Anderson’s 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of “nations” and “nationalism”. A