A01=Benedict Anderson
activism
activist
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
anthropology
Asia
Author_Benedict Anderson
autobiographies
autobiography
autobiography books
automatic-update
biographies
biographies and memoirs
biographies of famous people
biography
capitalism
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BM
Category=DNC
Category=HBA
Category=JPA
Category=JPW
Category=NHA
China
community
COP=United Kingdom
culture
death
Delivery_Pre-order
democracy
economics
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
fear
french
identity
Imagined Communities
Ireland
justice
Language_English
love
Memoir
memoir books
memoirs
memory
music
nationalism
PA=Temporarily unavailable
philosophy
political books
politics
poverty
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
revolution
social justice
socialism
sociology
softlaunch
Southern California
spirituality
traveling
war
world politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781784784560
- Weight: 401g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto's Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization.
In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism.
Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.
In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism.
Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.
Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was Editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution; The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World; The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination; and Imagined Communities.
