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The Indonesia Reader

The Indonesia Reader Paperback / softback - 2009

by Edited by Tineke Hellwig , Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; An introduction to Indonesias history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.
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  • Title The Indonesia Reader
  • Author Edited by Tineke Hellwig , Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Date 2009-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780822344247_inp
  • ISBN 9780822344247 / 0822344246
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.13 x 0.99 in (23.50 x 15.57 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Indonesia - Politics and government, Indonesia - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008041803
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.8

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From the publisher

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists' articles, explorers' chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time. All have introductions by the volume's editors. Well-known figures such as Indonesia's acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz are featured alongside other artists and scholars, as well as politicians, revolutionaries, colonists, scientists, and activists.

Organized chronologically, the volume addresses early Indonesian civilizations; contact with traders from India, China, and the Arab Middle East; and the European colonization of Indonesia, which culminated in centuries of Dutch rule. Selections offer insight into Japan's occupation (1942-45), the establishment of an independent Indonesia, and the post-independence era, from Sukarno's presidency (1945-67), through Suharto's dictatorial regime (1967-98), to the present Reformasi period. Themes of resistance and activism recur: in a book excerpt decrying the exploitation of Java's natural wealth by the Dutch; in the writing of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904), a Javanese princess considered the icon of Indonesian feminism; in a 1978 statement from East Timor objecting to annexation by Indonesia; and in an essay by the founder of Indonesia's first gay activist group. From fifth-century Sanskrit inscriptions in stone to selections related to the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 tsunami, The Indonesia Reader conveys the long history and the cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity of this far-flung archipelago nation.

About the author

Tineke Hellwig is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of In the Shadow of Change: Images of Women in Indonesian Literature and a co-editor of Asian Women: Interconnections. Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 and editor of Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree.

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