The original version of this book ended by invoking Walter Benjamin's "Angel of History" and declaring that wars such as the 1978-1979 conflict between China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, with which this book opens, will recur until people think more critically about the past.
The original version of this book ended by invoking Walter Benjamin's "Angel of History" and declaring that wars such as the 1978-1979 conflict between China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, with which this book opens, will recur until people think more critically about the past. A new chapter added after the publication of this book's first edition, which was inspired by Thongchai Winichakul's research subsequently published as Siam Mapped, was titled "Census, Map, Museum." The most famous section of this book discusses a "convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language." The title ideas of this book are the result of a common mental image of an entity that is "both inherently limited and sovereign." For 10 points, name this influential theoretical study of nationalism by Benedict Anderson.
The original version of this book ended by invoking Walter Benjamin's "Angel of History" and declaring that wars such as the 1978-1979 conflict between China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, with which this book opens, will recur until people think more critically about the past.
{Imagined Communities}