{"product_id":"imagined-communities-benedict-anderson-9781784786755","title":"Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis \"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 (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe's recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benedict Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784786756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784786755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Benedict Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053630583039,"sku":"9781784786755","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be657455-c032-4508-9976-cd1d4b1b8e57.jpg?v=1685025369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagined-communities-benedict-anderson-9781784786755","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}