A history of modern Indonesia

Cambridge University Press

2005

XIV, 291 Seiten

Introduction: Indonesian history and Pramoedya Ananta Toer; 1. Our colonial soil: Dutch colonial expansion and the creation of the basis of modern Indonesia in the Netherlands East Indies; 2. Cultures of the countryside: the lives of peasants and coolies during the colonial period; 3. 'To Assail the Colonial Machine': urban life and the development of Indonesian nationalism; 4. The Revolution: the struggle for independence, from the Japanese occupation of 1942 to the achievement of sovereignty in 1949; 5. Living in the Atomic Age: the 1950s and Sukarno's Guided Democracy; 6. From Old to New Orders: the build up to the political crisis of 1965, the killings, and the establishment of Suharto's New Order government; 7. Terror and development in Happy Land: the New Order from the late 1970s until the 1990s; 8. Age of globalisation, age of crisis: the last years of the New Order, the fall of Suharto and the period of democratic reform.

Английский