Paperback, 255 pages
English language
Published Nov. 16, 2007 by Verso Books.
The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities.
In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a compelling exploration of late-nineteenth-century politics and culture against a background of militant anarchism in Europe and the Americas. Jose Marti's armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. Anderson charts the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers – the political novelist Jose Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes – with avant-garde European literature and politics, connecting nationalist movements of the era.
Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.
(Source: Verso Books)
This book was enlightening. I learned about anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia. I learned about Isabelo de los Reyes, the first Filipino socialist who was anarchist-inflected. I learned more about Jose Rizal from this book than in Filipino class.
