Benedict Anderson Life beyond boundaries

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• Benedict Anderson was one of the most respected thinkers on the history of nationalism.
• His acclaimed Imagined Communities is one of the most cited works in social science.
• In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world.
• Born in China, he spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies.
• Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature.
• He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known works.