TEXTBOOKS, SCHOOLS, MEMORY, AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF NATIONAL IMAGINARIES:

Abstract

The work of Benedict Anderson on “imagined communities” has had a paradigm shifting impact on the ways that scholars across the social sciences and the humanities study nationalism; ethnic, social, and cultural belonging; and identity broadly considered. In this volume on school textbooks and the imagination of the nation we see Anderson’s influence clearly. Nearly all of the preceding chapters either directly or obliquely make reference to his work.