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Benedict Anderson States that chiefest of the paradoxes that have perplexed many theorists is "the objective modernity of nations to the historians' eye vs. their subjective antiquity in the eyes of nationalists." In what sense are nations 'modern'?

by /u/uisge-beatha in /r/AskHistorians

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