Benedict Anderson

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Benedict Anderson was a prominent political scientist and historian best known for his influential book "Imagined Communities," which transformed the study of nationalism.

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instanceOf person
political scientist
almaMater Cornell University NERFINISHED
King’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
authorOf Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism NERFINISHED
Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944–1946 NERFINISHED
Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia NERFINISHED
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand NERFINISHED
The Spectre of Comparisons: Essays on the Intersection of History and Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath heart failure
citizenship Ireland NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfBirth China NERFINISHED
countryOfDeath Indonesia NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1936-08-26
dateOfDeath 2015-12-13
educatedAt Cambridge University NERFINISHED
Cornell University
employer Cornell University
fieldOfWork history
nationalism studies
political science
fullName Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson NERFINISHED
genre historical analysis
political theory
influenced cultural studies
nationalism studies
postcolonial studies
knownFor scholarship on Southeast Asia
studies of nationalism
theory of imagined communities
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainInterest Southeast Asian politics
comparative politics
nationalism
notableConcept imagined community
notableWork Imagined Communities NERFINISHED
occupation university professor
placeOfBirth Kunming NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Batu NERFINISHED
positionHeld Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies at Cornell University NERFINISHED
Professor of International Studies at Cornell University
regionOfStudy Indonesia NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
sibling Perry Anderson NERFINISHED
workInstitution Cornell University NERFINISHED

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux hasPublished Benedict Anderson
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Perry Anderson sibling Benedict Anderson