Perry Anderson
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Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938)[1] is a British historian and political essayist. He is a specialist in intellectual history such as the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left.
Anderson was educated at Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford.
He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a former editor of the New Left Review. Anderson has written several books, the latest being The Indian Ideology (2012), a polemic against the Indian nation-building project. He is the brother of political scientist Benedict Anderson.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Elliott, Gregory (1998). Perry Anderson: The Merciless Laboratory of History. U of Minnesota Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8166-2966-4.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Archive of Perry Anderson's articles for The Nation
- Archive of Perry Anderson's articles for The New Left Review Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
- The New Statesman Profile – Perry Anderson Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
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