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Who among the following drew attention to the role of print languages in enabling the rise and spread…

Benedict Anderson’s account of imagined communities emphasizes print capitalism and shared print languages in the rise of nationalism. Ernest Gellner gives a different…

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Who among the following drew attention to the role of print languages in enabling the rise
and spread of nationalism?

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Benedict Anderson’s account of imagined communities emphasizes print capitalism and shared print languages in the rise of nationalism. Ernest Gellner gives a different modernization account; Charles Jenks is associated with architectural and postmodern discourse, and Frederic Jameson with Marxist cultural theory. Anderson is the specific print-language attribution.

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