Learning items
Imagined communities
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ConceptImagined community
An imagined community involves a sense of shared membership among people who cannot all know one another personally.
ConceptImagined simultaneity
People can imagine distant lives and events as unfolding alongside their own in shared time.
ConceptNation, limits and sovereignty
A nation is imagined as a bounded political community with a claim to sovereignty.
VocabularyDynastic realm
A dynastic realm is a political domain associated with a ruling family and its authority.
VocabularyPrint capitalism
In Anderson’s account, commercial print production connects markets for texts with the formation of shared reading publics.
VocabularyVernacular print-language
A vernacular print-language is a written medium based on languages used by wider populations rather than solely a learned elite language.
