Customer Reviews

Badly written though has some good points - By: Ibrahim Ali, 23 Sep 2007
This book though not totally without merit could have been condensed into about two pages of useful information. The author has taken rather selective interpretations of history &in many areas his historical knowledge contains huge gaps. There are a few good points made though the amount of nonsense one has to trawl through to get to these points is enough to make one despair.

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An eloquent masterpiece and an all defining reflection - By: , 29 Dec 1999
Without doubt the finest reflection on the origin & spread of nationalism ever written, not onlyin terms of its informed, imaginative perspective but alsoin the erudite quality of Anderson's narrative. As an expert on the history of South-East Asia, Anderson brings a valuable perspective to the all too Euro-centric debate on the rise of the nation state & the emotional attachment to it. A must for all who seek to discover the elusive & thusfar ill-defined origins of nationalism.