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The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries. Benedict Anderson in Amsterdam, circa 1958.(Melanie Anderson) In 1967, Sudisman, the general ...

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Wes Anderson, and his iconic style, has wowed audiences from the mid-90s up until his latest film, The French Dispatch, which premiered last year. Now Baz Bamigboye is reporting the artistic director ...

In 1983, the historian Benedict Anderson published his pioneering work Imagined Communities, which looks at the intangible factors that bond nations together. His analysis was prescient, thanks to the ...

A Life Beyond Boundaries. By Benedict Anderson. Verso; 205 pages; $24.95 and £14.99. IN SOUTH-EAST Asia Benedict Anderson, who died last December aged 79, was an intellectual giant. In 1966 he was ...

In “Thinking the Nation,” Max Bergholz offers a reappraisal of Benedict Anderson’s seminal 1983 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. He does so through the ...