... intellectuals, clergy and other elites. Anderson argued that although many were illiterate at this stage, the few could, as it were, read to the many, exemplified by the common nineteenth century image of one person reading to a group. This, he argues, also increased the idea of forming a community in which members were easily identifiable through their capacity to communicate amongst themselves ... or empirically argued in any from. For one to understand his argument, it would have been necessary to explain why, when reading and print became widespread in the sixteenth to seventeenth c...

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