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(1936-2015) Author. Benedict Anderson was born in Kunming, China, and died in Batu, Indonesia.

Full Name

Benedict Anderson

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


1936

BIRTH

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was born in Kunming, China, on August 26, 1936.

1967

OTHER

Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in government at Cornell University in 1967 and continued to teach there until his retirement in 2002.

1971

LITWORK

A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup in Indonesia
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
0877630089 / 978-0877630081
Nonfiction written with Ruth McVey.

1983

LITWORK

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Verso
0860910598 / 978-0860910596
Nonfiction.

1991

LITWORK

Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia
Cornell University Press
0801423546 / 978-0801423543
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

Spectre of Comparisons: Politics, Culture and the Nation
Verso
1859848133 / 978-1859848135
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia
Cornell University Southeast Asia
087727729X / 978-0877277293
Nonfiction.

2006

LITWORK

Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
Verso
1844670376 / 978-1844670376
Nonfiction.

2012

LITWORK

The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand
Seagull Books
0857420275 / 978-0857420275
Nonfiction.

2013

LITWORK

The Age Of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
Verso
1781681449 / 978-1781681442
Nonfiction.

2014

LITWORK

Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam Over Forty Years
Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
0877277931 / 978-0877277934
Nonfiction.

2015

DEATH

Benedict Anderson died at a hotel in Batu, Indonesia, on December 12, 2015

2016

LITWORK

A Life Beyond the Boundaries: A Memoir
Verso
1784784567 / 978-1784784560
Memoir.

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