GenevaBookClub: Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. It is widely considered the most important book on the subject. Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the "imagined communities" of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space.