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 - GoodreadsI am giving this book three stars only because it is a seminal work in the field of historical studies and because it did encapsulate some great basic ideas. However, I found myself completely bogged ...
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
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - GoodreadsA very insightful literature by Prof. Emeritus Benedict Anderson. The book tells us of the importance of Nationalism in a very new aspect and a way of looking at it, for example the author introducing ...
Review: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
User Review - Dusty - GoodreadsLike Foucault, or Bourdieu, or Butler, Benedict Anderson is an obligatory stop along the graduate literature student's journey toward the dissertation and graduation. The question of nationalism -- or ... Read full review
