Practice question · Put in order
Order the steps in Anderson’s account of how national consciousness forms.
- Print capitalism seeks large vernacular markets
- Newspapers create the experience of shared simultaneity
- The nation feels ancient, and demands sacrifice
- A standardized print language consolidates above dialects
- Readers imagine a community of strangers moving through time together
Hints
- The chain runs from a technology to a shared consciousness.
- Print capitalism comes before anyone imagines the community.
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- Print capitalism seeks large vernacular markets
- A standardized print language consolidates above dialects
- Newspapers create the experience of shared simultaneity
- Readers imagine a community of strangers moving through time together
- The nation feels ancient, and demands sacrifice
Why
From printing presses to willing conscripts: Anderson’s chain shows the "eternal" nation being assembled by very datable technologies and markets.
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