User Review - Flag as inappropriateAnderson this work is the bible of nationalism.There are moments of trance when followers of the drug of nationalism read it.It also gives headache to those who are afraid by the deluge of nationalism.People who want to do something of lasting value for their nations must read it.Some call nationalism the measles of humanity,but they tend to forget that this disease is curable through itself.After reading this book one understands the robust nature of nationalism and mythology.
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - William Thompson - GoodreadsFor those who remember my orientation in postmodern studies, you could predict my fascination for this book. Postmodernism, you will recall, is a rejection of the linear evidence for a particular ... Read full review
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - GoodreadsAn excellent and simple account of the ways in which societies only very recently started to define themselves according to their nationhood. How did these arbitrary lines in the sand become emotional ...
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Ralowe Ampu - Goodreadsthis text is confusing. the point seems to be that the nation is merely a social ordering technology that is fun to dismiss, yet the writer frequently refers to nationalities as knowable entities ... Read full review
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Kyle - GoodreadsI have been walking around this past week, reading this book with everyone who sees me reading it telling me how much they enjoyed it. And I look at them perplexed. Telling them how tedious his ... Read full review
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Mark Nassutti - GoodreadsA nation is a collection of people living in an area bounded by a border than can only be seen in a vastly scaled-down two-dimensional representation. These people can't possibly know each other ... Read full review
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Elfriede Crage - GoodreadsA bit scholarly and heavily footnoted, but not very lengthy and a compelling read which I highly recommend to anyone who would like to form an opinion about "current affairs." The main conclusion I ... Read full review
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Reed - GoodreadsBenedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" is a very solid constructivist account on the origin, dissemination, and persistence of nationalism, and a strong reminder of the force that nationalism has ... Read full review