Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. It is imagined because the actuality of even the smallest nation exceeds what it is possible for a single person to knowone cannot know every. In Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson argues that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and sovereign in nature. Book cover complies with fair use under U.S copyright law. Benedict Anderson's definition of nation.

Photo 1 is the first edition and photo 2 is the second edition of the book. An imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. It continues to be published by left leaning printing houses and pirated today in various languages. In Benedict Anderson In 1983 the publication of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism established Anderson’s reputation as one of the foremost thinkers on nationalism. In the second edition of Imagined Communities, Anderson has added two chapters which he claims “which basically have the character of discrete appendices.” In 2007, Imagine communities was published in 33 countries and in 29 languages.

Anderson also admits that there was a gross misinterpretation of a Renan quote. In the preface of the second edition Anderson writes of several changes that he has made, Andersons states “he had no intelligible explanation on exactly how and why new-emerging nations imagined themselves as antique.” In the first book there were translation errors due Anderson not speaking Spanish and relying on a translation of Noli Te Tangere which was inappropriately translated and what Anderson refered to as “corrupt.” There were also publications of around seven scholarly books regarding the origins of nationalism since the publishing of his first edition. The second edition, pictured on the right, was re-released and published in 1991. The first publication of Imagined Communities, pictured on the left was published by Benedict Anderson in 1983. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983) was the most influential book in the wave of writing in the early 1980s that made nationalism an important subject for analysis and teaching.

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