The so-called "dark gods theory" of these things says they are expressions of atavistic instincts.
The so-called "dark gods theory" of these things says they are expressions of atavistic instincts. The book Thought and Change outlines a theory of these things developed by Ernest Gellner. The role of the Olympics in creating these is discussed in a book by Eric Hobsbawm analyzing them since 1780, as well as by a historian who emphasized the role of newspapers in creating their "civic" variety. The rise of these things is attributed to (*) "print capitalism" in a book by Benedict Anderson that discusses them as "imagined communities." These communities title an anti-mercantilist book that illustrates the concept of division of labour with a pin factory. For 10 points, the phrase "invisible hand" was coined in an Adam Smith book about the "Wealth of" what entities?
The so-called "dark gods theory" of these things says they are expressions of atavistic instincts.
nations [or nation-states; accept nationalism; accept imagined communities until it is read; accept Nations and Nationalism or The Wealth of Nations; prompt on communities or countries] 