Imagined Communities
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marycatelliImagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
A complex and rather scholarly study of nationalism -- as opposed to religious unity, or unity under a dynasty.
Starting in the Americas, and with the lives of creoles -- people whose ancestry was wholly from Spain, but by dint of birthplace were not Spanish. The importance of language, and of print. How nationalism developed in groups excluded by birth from moving freely about a bureaucracy. The movement of the principle throughout the world
A complex and rather scholarly study of nationalism -- as opposed to religious unity, or unity under a dynasty.
Starting in the Americas, and with the lives of creoles -- people whose ancestry was wholly from Spain, but by dint of birthplace were not Spanish. The importance of language, and of print. How nationalism developed in groups excluded by birth from moving freely about a bureaucracy. The movement of the principle throughout the world