In the second edition of another book on this belief, the author gives "the census, maps, and museums" as explanations for why this idea was common among creoles in Latin America before Europeans.
In the essay "The Modern Janus," Tom Nairn calls the Marxist theory of this belief "Marxism's great historical failure." Liah Greenfeld claims the Tudor aristocracy created it in sixteenth century England and that there were individualistic and collectivistic varieties of this belief. One theorist claimed that it cannot exist in "agrarian-literary" societies and that it only exists in societies that have been industrialized. In the second edition of another book on this belief, the author gives "the census, maps, and museums" as explanations for why this idea was common among creoles in Latin America before Europeans. That work claims the printing press and capitalism created a unified field of exchange and language, which explains the origin and spread of this belief. Those two works are by Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson, the latter of which is Imagined Communities. For 10 points, name this ideology that calls for the creation of a political entity for the namesake group, which may or may not yet be a country.
In the essay "The Modern Janus," Tom Nairn calls the Marxist theory of this belief "Marxism's great historical failure."
nationalism