![]() There was nothing inevitable about the rise of nationalism according to Anderson its origins lay in the migration of Europeans to the Americas, in particular Creoles who had never been to the ‘motherland’ yet felt a deep connection to their ancestral home (in a time when travel was difficult at best). Ideas and sentiments about community solidarity and belonging. The emphasis in the book is on the invention of nationalism, not as a political ideology akin to Marxism or Fascism, but rather as a socially constructed artefact based on cherished Written by Benedict Anderson, a Professor of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, it explore the ways in which nationalism and nationalist movements led to the creation of nations, or as the title puts it, imagined communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() The phrase ‘imagined community’ has taken on a life of its own in recent years but can be traced back to the publication in 1983 of the book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. ![]()
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