THIS is a colorful, sparkling, and rich narratives of how an imagination of a particular nationality, society, and polity has been assembled, shaped, campaigned and delivered by the radicals and avant-garde persons, scholars and political activists among the colonized people during the second half of the nineteenth century in an archipelago that later become the Philippines. The story line in this book is full of dramatic intrigues and conflicts, agreements and schisms, comradeship and resistances, treason, and sacrifices as well. The author, Benedict Anderson, once again shows his talent and capability to provide vivid and detail accounts about the making process of nationalism and external factor that influenced its trajectory.
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