...revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely ordained, hierarchical dynastic realm. ... It is imagined as a community because, regardless...always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship" (pp. 6-7). 56. See Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton. NJ: Princeton...

...it was possible, in certain epochs, for, say, Christians to dream of a wholly Christian planet. ... It is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. . . . It is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. (6-7) To longtimers Provincetown is a rural fishing village; to gay men and lesbians it is a sanctuary...

...and Spread of Nationalism. Benedict Anderson argues with words rooted in male experience: Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind. . . . [I]t is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. . . . . . . [I]t is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities My point, then, is that during the first half of the nineteenth...

...Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 89. As Benedict Anderson observes, the nation is "imagined as a community, because regardless of...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion." Nations also function as communities "because, regardless of the actual inequality and...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship."" This broad understanding of the nation provides a helpful framework for identifying the specificity...

...each other by an authentic sameness that produces loyalty. As Benedict Anderson so famously put it, "regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship" (1991:7). Ethnoracial and other marked communities in the United States can be accurately described...

...human beings, has finite, if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations ... it is the imagined community because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail ... the nation is always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship. (Anderson, 1983, pp. 1 5- 1 6)...