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Under Three Flags:

Anarchism And the Anti-colonial Imagination
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Verso, 2005 - History - 255 pages
In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea.

A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th-century colonial elite at the climax of El Filibusterismo, whose author, the great political novelist Jose Rizal, was executed in 1896 by the Spanish authorities in the Philippines at the age of 35. Anderson explores the impact of avant-garde European literature and politics on Rizal and his contemporary, the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes, who was imprisoned in Manila after the violent uprisings of 1896 and later incarcerated, together with Catalan anarchists, in the prison fortress of Montjuich in Barcelona. On his return to the Philippines, by now under American occupation, Isabelo formed the first militant trade unions under the influence of Malatesta and Bakunin.

Anderson considers the complex intellectual interactions of these young Filipinos with the new "science" of anthropology in Germany and Austro-Hungary, and with post-Communard experimentalists in Paris, against a background of militant anarchism in Spain, France, Italy and the Americas, Jose Marti's armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. In doing so, he depicts the dense intertwining of anarchist internationalism and radical anti-colonialism.

Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.
  

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Review: Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

User Review  - Di-ay - Goodreads

First, I can't imagine really enjoying this book without having first read the works of José Rizal and Isabelo de los Reyes. Second, despite the subtitle, so far Anderson hasn't directly discussed ... Read full review

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User Review  - Daniel Burton-Rose - Goodreads

Some academics still think they're cutting edge for citing Imagined Communities, but this is what people should be reading now! Read full review

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About the author (2005)

Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.

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TitleUnder Three Flags: Anarchism And the Anti-colonial Imagination
AuthorBenedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
Editionillustrated
PublisherVerso, 2005
ISBN1844670376, 9781844670376
Length255 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Anarchism
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
  
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