I woke up this morning to see this interesting question on Twitter: This is an incredibly stupid 2 questions, particularly since I have no personal experience of 2 of the 3 countries, but I’ll ask. My vague sense is that Dutch imprint on Indonesia today is lighter than British imprint on India; French in Algeria. […]
Category: Asia
Re-Reading Imagined Communities for the 1000th Time
Some books just stick with you. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is one of them. It was one of only two books that I was assigned to read in multiple classes in college. At Om Ben’s memorial service, my colleague Isaac Kramnick called it the “second-most important book […]
