{"title":"Benedict Anderson","description":"Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons and Imagined Communities.","products":[{"product_id":"the-age-of-globalization-anarchists-and-the-anticolonial-imagination-paperback","title":"The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Globalization \u003c\/i\u003e(previously published as Under Three Flags) is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture. In particular, Benedict Anderson examines the links between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas and the anti-imperialist uprisings in Cuba, China, and Japan. Told through the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers--the political novelist José Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes--\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly original work on how global networks shaped the nationalist movements of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367952187615,"sku":"9781781681442","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nb6DtB1CYA9781781681442.webp?v=1789116956"},{"product_id":"the-spectre-of-comparisons-nationalism-southeast-asia-and-the-world-paperback","title":"The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"'Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the peoples in this world.' How clever Hitler was, brothers and sisters, in depicting these ideals!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, an anti-colonial leader, in a public speech while accepting an honorary degree, and viewing Europe and its history through an inverted telescope, as Europeans often regard other parts of the globe. Strange shifts in perspective can take place when Berlin is viewed from Jakarta, or when complex histories of colonial domination strand what counts as the founding work of a national culture in a language its people no longer read. The \"spectre of comparisons\" arises as nations stir into self awareness, matching themselves against others, and becoming whole through the exercise of the imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this series of profound and eloquent essays, Benedict Anderson, best known for his classic book on nationalism, \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, explores these effects as they work their way through politics and culture. Spanning broad accounts of the development of nationalism and identity, and detailed studies of Southeast Asia, the book includes pieces on East Timor, where every Indonesian attempt to suppress national feeling has had the opposite effect; on the Philippines, where it is said that some horses eat better than stable-hands; on Thailand, where so much money can be made in elected posts that candidates regularly kill to get them; on the Filipino nationalist and novelist José Rizal for whom \"we mortals are like turtles--we have value and are classified according to our shells;\" and a remarkable essay on Mario Vargas Llosa, detailing the fate of indigenous minorities at the hands of the modern state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Comparisons\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for those interested in Southeast Asia, Anderson also takes up the large issues of the universal grammars of nationalism and ethnicity, the peculiarity of nationalist imagery as replicas without originals, and the mutations of nationalism in an age of mass global migrations and instant electronic communications.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368260993247,"sku":"9781859841846","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RBlBcE0aQJ9781859841846.webp?v=1789125132"},{"product_id":"imagined-communities-reflections-on-the-origin-and-spread-of-nationalism-paperback","title":"Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"sparkling\" and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations--revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe's recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378728992991,"sku":"9781784786755","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7CitThvT_L9781784786755.webp?v=1789261600"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/benedict-anderson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}