Recently, I found an intriguing book review written by Anderson, commenting on the influential book, Negara. Therefore, I just want to know a list of Ben Anderson’s short essays, magazine articles, and book reveals for delving into the history of anti-colonial nationalism and Southeast Asian politics.
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Andersons most famous and influential book is Imagined communities. It dives into the genesis of the idea of a nation/nationalism as a so called imagined community: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_Communities
The book is somewhat easy to understand if you’ve read other scientific social science books – at least I think so.
If you want to read a shorter essay, give the essay long distance nationalism – world capitalism and the rise of identity politics a read. Deep dive obviously to be found in the book