José Rizal
José Rizal was a prominent Filipino nationalist leader, writer, and doctor who was executed by the Spanish in 1896 for inspiring the Philippine Revolution. Considered a national hero, his Spanish-language novels Noli Me Tángere and…
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Benedict Anderson
The author of Imagined Communities was a renowned social scientist, variously claimed by political scientists, historians, and anthropologists as one of their own. Anderson specialized in the politics of Southeast Asia (specifically Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand).
Thongchai Winichakul
Thongchai Winichakul was a historian whose dissertation on geography and mapmaking in Thai history plays an important role in Anderson’s discussion of the Map in Chapter 10.
