Written by Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Read by Kevin Foley
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Written by: Benedict Anderson
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:03-13-12
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher's Summary

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 a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: What makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their names?

Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the "imagined communities" of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa.

In a new afterword, Anderson examines the extraordinary influence of imagined communities. He also explores the book's international publication and reception, from its first publication toward the end of the Cold War era to the present day.

©1983 Benedict Anderson (P)2012 Tantor

What the Critics Say

"Sparkling, readable, densely packed." (Guardian)