I know Anderson has done more work in the area since the original publication of this work, but I have not read it yet. I hope that work refines his original thesis a bit which seems to simplistic on the chain of causation from material base to the effect of nationalism.



Perhaps he simplified to stretch his model over more examples, but I would be interested to see Anderson's take on post-Soviet Europe and Asia. A solid recommend, but not a breezy read by any means.



One thing that does annoy me is when authors have chunks of text and notes in untranslated foreign language. In this text the Asiatic languages receive a translation, but the western European languages are left to the reader to interpret. I can read most French but no German, leaving me at a deficit in some cases in the text.

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