Imagined communities

About “Imagined communities”

A book by Benedict Anderson about the development of national feeling in different eras and geographies across the world. It introduced the term "imagined communities" as a descriptor of a social group, specifically nations, which has since entered standard usage in political and social science fields. First published in 1983, it was reissued with additional chapters in 1991 and further revised in 2006. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)