Wilson’s (Self) Determination

This work is a species of modern intellectual history in the tradition of Orientalism, by Edward W. Said,[1] and Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson,[2] works that have been influential in recent scholarship on politics and history, even if Said’s controversial book has had more influence among undergraduates and activists than with serious scholars. Anderson’s study is more interesting and likely more enduring, even if only for the fact that it resurrected the study of nationalism, a concept whose death has been loudly proclaimed or quietly assumed for more than a century.