When the New York Times Magazine, for an end-of-the-millennium special issue, asked the oft-persecuted Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer to choose the best story of the last 1,000 years, he offered a somewhat ironic selection: the 1860 work of Dutchman Eduard Douwes Dekker, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. As Pramoedya explained, this now largely-forgotten book… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesI recommend anything by Benedict Anderson. He is a good and remarkably clear writer considering the complexity of his subject matter. I read much of Imagined Communities and found the basic ideas quite fascinating. Anderson is a great historian and political theorist.
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