National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders

Evidence

We can summarize the conclusions to be drawn from the argument thus far by saying that the convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation. The potential stretch of these communities was inherently limited, and, at the same time, bore none but the most fortuitous relationship to existing political boundaries (which were, on the whole, the highwater marks of dynastic expansionisms). — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 191

Categorization

• XREF: The discontinuity between print-community reach and state boundaries is the hinge that pushes Anderson to the Americas — scaffolds how imagined community and state power diverge, key for reading exclusionary state projects. — connects to: The local resists globalization from within, with no fixed political content; The map can create a national community where none previously existed — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 668; Colonial cartography created nations whose borders match neither history nor language. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 507 (+4 more)

Related

• The local resists globalization from within, with no fixed political content (similarity 0.90)
• Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.83)
• Material interests and Enlightenment ideas alone could not shape nationalist imagined communities. (similarity 0.82)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.82)
• The map can create a national community where none previously existed (similarity 0.82)
• Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable (similarity 0.82)
• Nationalists fought for territories they had only seen on schoolroom maps (similarity 0.81)
• Novels and newspapers supplied the technical means to imagine the nation (similarity 0.80)
• Geographic isolation limited the imagined simultaneity needed for continent-wide nationalism. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial cartography created nations whose borders match neither history nor language. (similarity 0.79)
• Print-languages made mutually unintelligible dialects into unified national communities (similarity 0.79)
• Material interests and ideologies cannot by themselves shape imagined communities (similarity 0.79)
• All communities are imagined, differing only in style, not genuineness. (similarity 0.78)
• Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial cartography created nations whose borders match neither history nor language. #corroborates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 507
• Libraries functioned as instruments of nationalizing contested border regions #exemplifies (0.70) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 739