Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson

Perry R. Anderson (b. September 1938, London) is a British historian and political essayist. A specialist in intellectual history, he is often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a former editor of the New Left Review. He is the brother of anthropologist and historian Benedict Anderson.

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