PWCW 3 (Benedict Anderson)
<p><strong>Benedict Anderson, <em>Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism</em></strong></p> <p>If the development of print-as-commodity is the key to the generation of wholly new ideas of simultaneity, still, we are simply at the point where communities of the type ‘horizontal-secular, transverse-time’ become possible. Why, within that type, did the nation become so popular? The factors involved are obviously complex and various. But a strong case can be made for the primacy of capitalism…</p>
Authors: Jonas von Lenthe
Subject: Benedict Anderson