Ornamentalism
Subtitle: How the British Saw Their Empire
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780195157949
First sentence: Nations, it has recently become commonplace to observe, are in part imaged communities, depending for their credibility and identity both on the legitimacy of government and the apparatus of the state, and on invented traditions, manufactured myths, and shared perceptions of the social order that are never more than crude categories and oversimplified stereotypes.