Perry Anderson
Francis Rory Peregrine" Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) 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
Other websites
Archive of Perry Anderson' s articles for The Nation
Archive of Perry Anderson' s articles for The New Left Review
The New Statesman Profile - Perry Anderson
1938 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
English historians
People educated at Eton College
Writers from London