Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

In this sparkling new work Benedict Anderson provides a compelling exploration of late-nineteenth-century politics and culture against a background of militant anarchism in Europe and the Americas. Jose Martis armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. Anderson charts the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers the political novelist Jose Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes with avant-garde European literature and politics connecting nationalist movements of the era. Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.