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Indonesian destinies / Theodore Friend.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003Description: x, 628 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674011376
  • 9780674011373
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.803 21
LOC classification:
  • DS644 .F69 2003
Contents:
Prologue: The Largest Muslim Nation -- Sukarno -- 1. Indonesia, the Devouring Nurturer -- 2. Guided Chaos -- 3. Ego, Voice, Vertigo -- 4. Mass Murder -- Suharto -- 5. The Smile of Progress -- 6. The New Majapahit Empire -- 7. The Sound of Silence -- 8. The Last Years of Living Securely -- 9. Behind, Beyond, Beneath the Power Structure -- 10. Indonesia Burning -- Succession -- 11. Forcing Out Suharto -- 12. Stroke -- 13. New Leaders, New Islam -- 14. Election 1999: Reds, Greens, Blues, Yellows -- 15. East Timor -- 16. Anarcho-Democracy -- Epilogue: Sukarno's Daughter in the Palace.
Review: "Theodore Friend's remarkable work is a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the post-war revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: The Largest Muslim Nation -- Sukarno -- 1. Indonesia, the Devouring Nurturer -- 2. Guided Chaos -- 3. Ego, Voice, Vertigo -- 4. Mass Murder -- Suharto -- 5. The Smile of Progress -- 6. The New Majapahit Empire -- 7. The Sound of Silence -- 8. The Last Years of Living Securely -- 9. Behind, Beyond, Beneath the Power Structure -- 10. Indonesia Burning -- Succession -- 11. Forcing Out Suharto -- 12. Stroke -- 13. New Leaders, New Islam -- 14. Election 1999: Reds, Greens, Blues, Yellows -- 15. East Timor -- 16. Anarcho-Democracy -- Epilogue: Sukarno's Daughter in the Palace.

"Theodore Friend's remarkable work is a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the post-war revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart."--BOOK JACKET.

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