A history of modern Indonesia / / Adrian Vickers [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Vickers Adrian <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 959.803
• Soggetto geografico: Indonesia History 20th century; Indonesia Politics and government 20th century
• Classificazione: 15.75; 18.94
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Acknowledgements; A note on spelling, pronunciation and names; Chronology; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Our colonial soil; CHAPTER 2 Cultures of the countryside; CHAPTER 3 'To assail the colonial machine'; CHAPTER 4 The Revolution; CHAPTER 5 Living in the atomic age; CHAPTER 6 From Old to New Orders; CHAPTER 7 Terror and development in happy land; CHAPTER 8 Age of globalisation, age of crisis; Biographies of key figures; Abbreviations and glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Guided by the life and writings of the country's most famous author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of twentieth-century Indonesia in this innovative and timely account. He begins by explaining the country's origins under the Dutch in the early part of that century, the subsequent anti-colonial struggle and revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, which was followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-communist massacres of the 1960s when General Suharto took over as president. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Drawing on insights from literature, art and anthropology, Adrian Vickers portrays a complex and resilient people borne out of a troubled past.
• Titolo autorizzato: History of modern Indonesia
• ISBN: 1-107-14967-3; 1-280-30891-5; 0-511-80102-5; 0-511-13709-5; 0-511-13431-2; 0-511-20131-1; 0-511-31154-0; 0-511-13492-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806998303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II