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Love your list, but wanted second Imagined Communities. I don't see it as much as the other's (frequent HN recommendations). Drags a bit, but is short and impac
by cloverich 8y ago
Love your list, but wanted second Imagined Communities. I don't see it as much as the other's (frequent HN recommendations). Drags a bit, but is short and impactful. I especially thought its exploration of how _language_ influenced nation's was particularly enlightening. If you find the Selfish Gene to have powerful explanatory effect, I bet you will feel similarly about Imagined Communities.
- barry-cotter 8y agoRead Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Azar Gat. https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-have-your-bias/ https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-ha... > Basically, Gat is refuting a modernist view, which has arguably gone from being revisionist to normative, that the concept and execution of a nation is a historically contingent construction of early modern Europe, and more precisely Revolutionary France of the 1790s.