I am a geography major specialising in Southeast Asia, and was quite drawn to Anderson's "last wave" theorisation for the development of Southeast Asian nation states. Within my university which specialises in Southeast Asia, Imagined Communities is the point from which any understanding of nationalism or political geography is orientated towards.

What do historians think about that book - from other similar threads I get the feeling that any academics not specialising in history (of the top of my head:Jared Diamond, Chomsky, David Harvey) often leave giant holes in their theories. So I am curious: What do historians think of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities?