The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities. In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siècle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th-century colonial elite at the climax of El Filibusterismo, whose author, the great political novelist José Rizal, was executed in 1896 by the Spanis authorities in the Philippines at the age of 35. Anderson explores the impact of avant-garde European literature and politics on Rizal and his contemporary, the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes, who was imprisoned in Manila after the violent uprisings of 1896 and later incarcerated, together with Catalan anarchists, in the prison fortress of Montjuich in Barcelona. On his return to the Philippines, by now under American occupation, Isabelo formed the first militant trade unions under the influence of Malatesta and Bakunin. Anderson considers the complex intellectual interactions of these young Filipinos with the new "science" of anthropology in Germany and Austro-Hungary, and with post-Communard experimentalists in Paris, against a background of militant anarchism in Spain, France, Italy and the Americas, José Marti's armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. In doing so, he depicts the dense intertwining of anarchist internationalism and radical anti-colonialism. Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.

許多世紀以來，越南人本身既是殖民者，又是其他殖民者的犧牲品。越南的國家版圖時而擴張，時而縮水，有時分裂，有時消失，而且這一切遠非他們所能掌控。儘管一再面對龐大的壓力，越南存活下來，創建了亞洲最特出、最複雜的文化。 近年來，隨著造訪這個獨特國度的人越來越多，對一本重要史冊的需求也不斷升高：我們需要有一本書，讓外界人士了解過去的統治者、叛亂者、僧侶與殖民者在越南留下的歷史痕跡。 高夏的新作《越南：世界史的失語者》充分滿足了這項需求。根據他對中南半島投入畢生研究的心得，所寫的這本書既能隨時保有越南「圈內人」的省思，在觀念上又不失與越南「圈外人」的聯繫。一波又一波來自中國、法國、日本或美國的入侵者最後都被越南人逐退，我們也見到越南人本身為這一切付出的可怕代價。由於冷戰期間最曠日持久的一場衝突戰就發生在越南，許多年來，為了宣傳，越南的過去一直遭到扭曲、操控。或許直到今天，我們才終於能從一種真正歷史的角度，對造成現代越南的事件進行觀察。 高夏運用越南文、法文與英文資料完成這項最新的研究。《越南：世界史的失語者》既有越南史的宏觀描述，又包容許多世紀以來詮釋越南層層面面的各種野史、傳說、歧見、文化與人物，無疑是一本卓越而重要的巨著。

海外華人史學大家王賡武在年近九旬之際寫下自己「長年半游牧生涯」的故事。他的人生以殖民時代的東南亞為起點，歷經殖民、戰爭、動亂、革命，大半生在三大洲間遷徙， 構成二十世紀的歷史洪流之中一部豐富而獨特的流浪史。 接續上卷《家園何處是》，下卷《心安即是家》的故事從王賡武身份認同的廢墟上展開， 繼續述說他輾轉於新加坡、吉隆坡、倫敦、劍橋、坎培拉、香港的探索旅程。王賡武逐漸從滿腔熱血、致力於「建國造史」的年輕知識精英，轉而投向大學校園「尋求更大的自由」。 這段旅程的同行者是本書另一位作者林娉婷。我們會從她的角度回看那些年，她與年輕的鬍子詩人王賡武相識於馬來亞大學，兩人在倫敦成婚，在異鄉生子，先後遷居五個國家、七座城市，共同尋求身份認同的歸宿：「我們住在什麼地方，那裏就是我們的家。」