Title: A foundational text for the study of world nationalisms
Product review: I know Anderson has done more work in the area since the original publication of this work, but I have not read it yet. I hope that work refines his original thesis a bit which seems to simplistic on the chain of causation from material base to the effect of nationalism.Perhaps he simplified to stretch his model over more examples, but I would be interested to see Anderson's take on post-Soviet Europe and Asia. A solid recommend, but not a breezy read by any means.One thing that does annoy me is when authors have chunks of text and notes in untranslated foreign language. In this text the Asiatic languages receive a translation, but the western European languages are left to the reader to interpret. I can read most French but no German, leaving me at a deficit in some cases in the text.
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