Benedict Anderson
Author · 12 books
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, first published in 1983. Anderson was born in Kunming, China, to James O'Gorman Anderson and Veronica Beatrice Bigham, and in 1941 the family moved to California. In 1957, Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Cambridge University, and he later earned a Ph.D. from Cornell's Department of Government, where he studied modern Indonesia under the guidance of George Kahin. He is the brother of historian Perry Anderson.
Series
Books
Mapping the Nation
1996
A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia
1971
The Spectre of Comparisons
Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
1998
Mitologi dan Toleransi Orang Jawa
1970
Language and Power
Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia
1990
Southeast Asia Over Three Generations
Essays Presented to Benedict R.O'G. Anderson
2003
The Fate of Rural Hell
Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand
2012
Java in a Time of Revolution
Occupation and Resistance 1944-1946
1972
A Life Beyond Boundaries
A Memoir
2009
Under Three Flags
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
2005
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
1983
Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam over Forty Years
2014
