Publication

2001 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100195146603
  • ISBN-139780195146608
  • Goodreads1843257
  • LibraryThing20940
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001021407
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC941.08
  • LCCDA16 .C28 2001
  • LCCDA16.C28 2001

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ornamentalism: how the British saw their empireOxford University Press2001-01-01

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