The Age Of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange ofgunfire. The Age of Globalization (previously published as UnderThree Flags) is an account of the unlikely connections that madeup late nineteenth-century politics and culture. In particular,Benedict Anderson examines the links between militant anarchistsin Europe and the Americas and the anti-imperialist uprisings inCuba, China, and Japan. Told through the complex intellectualinteractions of two great Filipino writersthe political novelistJos Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los ReyesTheAge of Globalization is a brilliantly original work on how globalnetworks shaped the nationalist movements of the time.