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Author Vickers, Adrian
Title A History of Modern Indonesia
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Edition 2nd ed
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Note Cover -- A HISTORY OF MODERN INDONESIA, SECOND EDITION -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, maps and tables -- Acknowledgements -- A note on spelling, pronunciation and names -- Chronology -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Our colonial soil -- CONQUERING THE INDIES -- ADMINISTERING THE EMPIRE -- ETHICAL PROGRESS -- PUBLIC WELFARE -- MAINTAINING DUTCH SOCIETY -- END OF THE IDYLL -- CHAPTER 2 Cultures of the countryside -- THE STRUGGLE OF THE ARISTOCRACY -- EDUCATION AND EMANCIPATION -- PEASANTS AGAINST THE COLONIAL STATE -- PEASANT SPIRITUALITY -- A MOBILE WORKFORCE -- ISLAM -- CHAPTER 3 'To assail the colonial machine' -- THE MODERNNESS OF CITIES -- CITY LIFESTYLES -- CULTURAL LIFE -- WORKERS' CITIES -- THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT -- THE PARTIES -- CHAPTER 4 The Revolution -- THE ARRIVAL OF THE JAPANESE -- EXPERIENCES OF JAPANESE RULE -- MOBILISING THE POPULATION -- INDEPENDENCE -- SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS -- FORMING A MILITARY AND A STATE -- THE DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION -- CHAPTER 5 Living in the atomic age -- THE NEW CLASS AND THE NEW STATE -- THE FIRST PRINCIPLE: STRUCTURING A FREE INDONESIA IN FAITHFULNESS TO GOD ALMIGHTY -- THE SECOND PRINCIPLE: CONSENSUS OR DEMOCRACY -- THE THIRD PRINCIPLE: INTERNATIONALISM OR HUMANITARIANISM -- PROGRESSIVE ERA -- THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE: SOCIAL PROSPERITY -- THE FIFTH PRINCIPLE: NATIONALISM OR NATIONAL UNITY -- CHAPTER 6 From the old order to the new -- CONTINUING THE REVOLUTION -- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PKI -- ESTABLISHING A NEW ORDER -- CHAPTER 7 Terror and development in happy land -- CRUSHING THE OPPOSITION -- BENEFITS OF DEVELOPMENT -- THE DEVELOPMENT STATE -- CHAPTER 8 Age of globalisation, age of crisis -- OPENNESS AND THE FALL OF SUHARTO -- VIOLENCE AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS -- PRESIDENTS AND OLIGARCHY -- REGIONAL AUTONOMY -- THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST -- Biographies of key figures
PRESIDENTS, VICE-PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS -- OTHER POLITICAL LEADERS -- Abbreviations and glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
This updated edition examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and asks why the country's democratic aspirations have yet to be realized
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Link Print version: Vickers, Adrian A History of Modern Indonesia New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 9781107019478
Subject Indonesia -- History.;Indonesia -- Politics and government
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