| Description |
xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
List of figures - List of maps - Achnowledgements - A note on spelling, pronunciation and names - Chronology - Intruduction - Our colonial soil - Cultures of the countryside - To assail the colonial machine - The Revolution - Living in the atomic age - From old to new orders - Terror and development in happy land - Age of globalisation, age of crisis - Biographies of key figures - Abbreviations and glossary - Notes - Bibliography - Index |
| Summary |
Indonesia's history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied, this book looks at the social and political landscape of twentieth-century Indonesia. The country's origins under the Dutch is explained, the subsequent anti-colonial struggle and the revolution which led to independence in 1949. Then the 1950's which was a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, followed by the Sukarno years, the anti-communist massacres of the 1960s. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order and the subsequent political and religious turnoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002 |
| Notes |
Inlcudes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: pages 263-283 |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL Ebook Library |
| SUBJECT |
Indonesia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065741
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Indonesia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065747
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Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065760
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| LC no. |
2006296366 |
| ISBN |
0521542626 (paperback) |
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0521834937 (hbk) |
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9780521542623 (paperback) |
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9780521834933 (hbk) |
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