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 sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.
- ISBN10 1844670864
- ISBN13 9781844670864
- Publish Date 11 September 2006 (first published 1 March 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 November 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English