Radicals Without Borders

By Meredith L. Weiss

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 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Meredith,

    You have piqued my curiosity.

    United States Posted by luminous beauty on Feb 13, 2006 at 7:39 AM

    I 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.

    United States Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Feb 13, 2006 at 12:43 PM
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