| Description |
1 online resource (417 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Technical Notes; Introduction: The Outskirts of the Nation; 1 The Golden Bridge; 2 Buried Guns; 3 Imagining Independence; 4 Eager Girls; 5 Sea of Fire; 6 Letting Loose the Water Buffaloes; 7 The Memory Artist; Conclusion: The Sense of an Ending; Appendix 1: List of Informants; Appendix 2: Glossary and Abbreviations; Appendix 3: Time Line; Notes; References; Index of Cited Informants; General Index. |
| Summary |
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also trying to come to grips with the meaning of "independence." Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was experienced on the outskirts of the nation among Karo Batak villagers in the rural highlands of North Sumatra. Based on extensive interviews and. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Revolution (Indonesia : 1945-1949) |
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- History.
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) |
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History. |
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Indonesia -- History -- Revolution, 1945-1949 -- Personal narratives, Indonesian.
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Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1945-1949 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Personal narratives -- Indonesian.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steedly, Mary Margaret. Rifle Reports : A Story of Indonesian Independence. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520274877 |
| ISBN |
9780520955288 (electronic book) |
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0520955285 (electronic book) |
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9780520274860 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520274865 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520274873 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520274877 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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