What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.

本书是诺贝尔物理学奖获得者，凝聚态物理界的泰斗P.W.Anderson的经典著作，是固体理论方面最权威的参考书之一，作者在这个领域内作出过非常突出的贡献。书中对固体物理学中的许多基本概念作了精辟的分析，清晰的表达出各种基本原理，并使之具体化，引导读者进入这一极具挑战的领域，体现出大师著作的独特风格！ 目次：导论；单电子理论；元激发。 读者对象：本书适合凝聚态物理专业的研究生，教师及相关专业研究人员。