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The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
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- Book Title
- The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the
- Genre
- International relations
- ISBN
- 9781859841846
- Subject Area
- Political Science
- Publication Name
- The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Subject
- Government
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 524g
- Number of Pages
- 386 Pages
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'Come let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the peoples of the world.' How clever Hitler was, brothers and sisters, in depicting these ideals! Thus the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, an anti-colonial leader, in a public speech while accepting an honorary degree, and viewing Europe and its history through an inverted telescope, as Europeans often regard other parts of the globe. Strange shifts in perspective can take place when Berlin is viewed from Jakarta, or when the complex histories of colonial domination strand what counts as the founding work of a national culture in a language its people can no longer read. The 'Spectre of Comparisons' arises as nations stir into self awareness, matching themselves against others, and becoming whole through the exercise of the imagination. In this series of profound and eloquent essays, Benedict Anderson, best known for his classic book on nationalism, Imagined Communities, explores these effects as they work their way through politics and culture. Spanning broad accounts of the development of nationalism and identity, and detailed studies of Southeast Asia, the book includes pieces on East Timor, where every Indonesian attempt to suppress national feeling has had the opposite effect; on the Philippines, where it is said that some horses eat better than some stable-hands; on Thailand, where so much money can be made in elected posts that candidates regularly kill to get them; on the Filipino nationalist and novelist Jose Rizal for whom 'we mortals are like turtles - we have value and are classified according to our shells'; and a remarkable essay on Mario Vargas Llosa, detailing the fate of indigenous minorities at the hands of the modern state. While The Spectre of Comparisons is an indispensable resource for those interested in Southeast Asia, Anderson also takes up the large issues of the universal grammars of nationalism and ethnicity, the peculiarity of nationalist imagery as replicas without originals, and the mutations of nationalism in an age of mass global migrations and instant electronic communications.
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Verso Books
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9781859841846
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Subject Area
Political Science
Publication Name
The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
386 Pages
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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
524g
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Literary Theory
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United Kingdom
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