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Author Vickers, Adrian, 1958-

Title A History of Modern Indonesia.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (326 pages)
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Contents 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 CITIESCITY 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 PROSPERITYTHE 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 MINISTERSOTHER POLITICAL LEADERS; Abbreviations and glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Updated edition which examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and asks why the country's democratic aspirations have yet to be realized.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Indonesia -- History.
Indonesia.
History.
Indonesia -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Vickers, Adrian. A History of Modern Indonesia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107019478
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