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Print capitalism
VocabularyIn Anderson’s account, commercial print production connects markets for texts with the formation of shared reading publics.
Explanation or usage
Publishers seeking buyers can circulate texts among people who do not know one another. This is a proposed historical mechanism for changes in collective imagination. Printing alone does not guarantee a nation or explain every national movement.
Common misunderstandings
Installing a printing press automatically creates a nation.
In Imagined communities
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Consider how printing, commercial incentives, and language interact, rather than treating a single technology as the sole cause.