Sanjay Subrahmanyam : quand les récits civilisationnels mènent à la guerre

Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'un frère qui a passé une grande partie de sa vie à rêver de devenir un artisan mondialement connu, de voyager et de faire fortune, mais dont les rêves se sont heurtés à la réalité de son univers ouvrier et pauvre. Après des années d'échecs et de dépression, il a été retrouvé mort à 38 ans. L'ouvrage examine le déterminisme social, la cruauté des plafonds de verre et la violence psychologique omniprésente dans son environnement.

In 'Imagined Communities,' Benedict Anderson examines the historical rise and development of nationalism. He argues that nations are not ancient communities but rather modern constructs, imagined by their members as a shared, limited, and sovereign community. Anderson traces the emergence of nationalism to the Americas in the 18th and 19th centuries, where creole elites and the spread of print capitalism played crucial roles. He also discusses how nationalism filled the void left by the decline of religious communities and how it was shaped by factors such as mass vernacular literacy, the abolition of divine right monarchies, and the standardization of national calendars, clocks, and languages. The book is influential in social sciences and has been widely cited and translated into more than thirty languages.