The Age of Globalization

The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. <i>The Age of Globalization </i>(previously published as <i>Under Three Flags</i>) is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture. In particular Benedict Anderson examines the links between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas and the anti-imperialist uprisings in Cuba China and Japan. Told through the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers—the political novelist José Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes—<i>The Age of Globalization</i> is a brilliantly original work on how global networks shaped the nationalist movements of the time.