Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Books
Bohlau Verlag Rousseau und die Physiokraten: Politische
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Bohlau Verlag Gesellschaftspsychologie Einer Revolution: Die
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Bohlau Verlag November 1918: Revolution an der Ostsee und im
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Bohlau Verlag Beethoven: Werk und Wirkung
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Bohlau Verlag Mord im Parlament: Ein vergessenes Gemälde von
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Duncker & Humblot Der Bedrohte Leviathan: Staat Und Revolution in
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Harrassowitz Revolution Und Reichsende: Der
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Books on Demand Bonnie Prince Charlie und die Jakobitische
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Books on Demand Die revolutionären Obleute und der November 1918: Zur Verschränkung von institutioneller Revolution und Rätebewegung
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Kooperation, Konfrontation, Disruption:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Oktoberrevolution 1917: Ereignis, Rezeption,
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Transcript Verlag Resistance: Subjects, Representations, Contexts
Book SynopsisAll around the world and throughout history, resistance has played an important role - and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contexts of resistance, but also open up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across different disciplines. With contributions by Micha Brumlik, Peter McLaren, and others.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Borot′bism – A Chapter in the History of the
Book SynopsisMuch has been written on the 19171920 revolution in Ukraine, on the national movement, the Makhnovists and the Bolsheviks. Yet there were others with a mass following whose role has faded from history books. One such party was the Borotbisty, the heirs of the mass Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, an independent party seeking to achieve national liberation and social emancipation. Though widely known in revolutionary Europe in their day, the Borotbisty were decimated during the Stalinist holocaust in Ukraine. Out of print for over half a century, this lost text by Ivan Maistrenko, the last survivor of the Borotbisty, provides a unique account on this party and its historical role. Part memoir and part history, this is a thought-provoking book which challenges previous approaches to the revolution and shows how events in Ukraine decided the fate not only of the Russian Revolution but the upheavals in Europe at the time.Trade ReviewIvan Maistrenko's Borot'bism is more than just a historical document. The debates during and after the Ukrainian revolution of 1917 still have a contemporary relevance-and Ukrainian debate was especially rich because it extended beyond the ranks of the Bolsheviks to the 'national communist' parties, the Borotbisty and Ukapisty... The debate about the relative importance of national and/or social liberation is still of great importance, however, especially as Ukrainians arguably now have the former without the latter. -- Andrew Wilson, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
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V&R unipress GmbH Frauen, wacht auf!: Eine Frauen- und
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Sandstein Verlag 1917. Revolution: Russland Und Die Schweiz
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Sandstein Verlag Macht Euern Dreck Alleene!: Der Letzte Sachsische
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Spector Books Bruno Serralongue. Encuentro, Chiapas 1996
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Planeta Publishing Érase Una Vez México 2
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Prh Grupo Editorial Revolución de la libertad Revolution of Freedom
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Manas Publications Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Greased Cartridge
Book SynopsisThe greased cartridge sparked the 1857 revolt due to religious concerns. New Enfield rifles were issued, requiring soldiers to bite cartridges containing cow and pig fat. Despite failing, the revolt inspired the national liberation movement.
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Pentagon Press Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Brief
Book SynopsisAfghanistan is located at the cross-roads of many civilizations. It is the gateway to India as well as to Central Asia. It shares borders with Pakistan, Iran, and the Central Asian Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan a volatile mix of nations in a troubled corner of the world. Historically, the country with the most interest in the region is Russia, which views Central Asia as its back yard, and the nations located within it stepping stones to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea. In pursuit of that ambition, Russia over the centuries has gradually expanded its realm by conquering the vast lands of the Caucasus and Muslim Central Asia, eventually pausing at the northern borders of the Indian sub-continent and Afghanistan. Seven years after Afghanistan's first-ever Presidential election, the increasingly besieged Government of Hamid Karzai has virtually lost credibility at home and abroad. Al Qaeda has found a new friend in the region the Tehrik-e-Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) which has offered them a safe haven in the tribal belt of the country. The government of Pakistan beset by one political crisis after another and in the aftermath of the killing of Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad, is on the defensive.Table of Contents1. A Historical Perspective The Advent of Islam The Nationalist Uprising The Decline Iran's Dominance over Afghanistan Relations with British India The First Anglo-Afghan War The Beginning of the 'Great Game' The Second Anglo-Afghan War 2. Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century Amir Habibullah Khan (1901-1919) The Anglo-Russian Convention Amir Amanullah Khan Amir Nadir Shah Zahir Shah, the last Afghan King President Sardar Daud Khan Border Issues with Pakistan Loya Jirga Daud's Governance President Noor Muhammad Taraki President Hafizullah Amin President Babrak Karmal President Dr. Najibullah 3. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Taliban--The Holy Warriors Enter Osama bin Laden Launching Attacks on American Assets Al-Qaeda Training Camps in Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom 4. Afghanistan's Ethnic Conundrum 5. Afghanistan Today US Relations with Pakistan The Death of Osama bin Laden Pak-US marriage 6. How Pakistan was Talibanized? Role of the Media Taliban and the Political Parties in Pakistan's Tribal Belt The Mindset of the Pakistani Taliban Taliban's Restrictions on Arts in Pakistan 7. Militant Groups and their Leaders FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Militant Groups in FATA Groups of Taliban Forces in FATA Foreign Militant Groups in Pakistan's Tribal Belt Sources of Taliban Funding Opium as Source of Funding 8. The Issues in FATA-A Historical perspective FATA at a Glance Literacy Educational Institutes in FATA versus those in the entire Province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa 9. Is Taliban Losing its Clout? Can the Taliban Revive again? Taliban's latest move could help Peace Drive 10. Attacks on the NATO Supply Line in Pakistan NATO Strike on Pakistani Military Posts 11. America's New Afghan Policy Drone Attacks 12. Afghanistan after 2014 What can the United States Accept? End Notes Index
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Tulika Print Communication Services 1857 – Facets of the Great Revolt
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Tulika Defying Death – Struggles Against Imperialism and
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Archeobooks Deconstruction of Natural Order: The Legacy of
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REVOLUCION DE LOS CLAVELES
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Laertes Víctor Serge: La conciencia de la revolución
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Viella Neither Disobedients Nor Rebels: Lawful
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romania: The Unfinished Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Romanian revolution was motivated by a desire for greater political and intellectual freedom and economic prosperity. It was the bloodiest of the eastern European transitions due to Ceausescu's cult of personality. However, many of the goals of the revolution are still unfulfilled. The lack of civil society, charges of political corruption, the failure to transform the economy, and concerns over the protection of ethnic minority rights are all factors in Romania's failure to become a fully integrated European country. Tracing the country's political history and examining Romania's postcommunist politics, economic transition and foreign policy, this book contemplates the prospects for this country as it enters the twenty first century.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 History of Romania: 1944–1964; Chapter 3 History of Romania: 1965–1989; Chapter 4 Romanian Political Development: 1990–1999; Chapter 5 Romanian Economic Policy: 1990–1999; Chapter 6 Romanian Foreign Policy: 1990–1999;
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Logik Tyskland återfött
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Aakar Books Mahad: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt
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Zubaan Doing Time with Nehru – The Story of an
Book SynopsisIt’s midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, “We’re coming in! Get on the floor!” A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario is the greatest fear of many twentieth-century families—and to the unlucky, it’s a lived reality. For the ethnic Chinese who had been settled in Northern India for many years, 1962 was filled with moments of terror like these. After the Sino-Indian Border War broke out in 1962, on the authorization of Prime Minister Nehru more than two thousand Chinese-Indians were torn from their homes and placed in local jails before being transported more than one thousand miles to the Deoli internment camp in the Rajasthan desert. Born in Calcutta in 1949 and raised in Darjeeling, Yin Marsh was just thirteen years old when first her father was taken and then she, her grandmother, and eight year old brother were forcibly removed from their home and thrown first into Darjeeling Jail. Upon arrival in Deoli, Yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where Prime Minister Nehru himself had done time during India’s war for independence. Eventually released, Yin emigrated to America with her mother. She attended college, married, and raised her own family, all without telling the story of her emotional trauma. It wasn’t until her own college-age daughter began to ask questions and when a friend’s wedding would require her to return to her homeland that Yin was finally able to face what had happened to her and her family. In the fascinating memoir Doing Time with Nehru, the little-known history of how the Chinese were treated in post-Independence India is brought to light and through Yin’s story, readers can glimpse the hardship, cruelty, and harsh lessons required for survival.
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Amsterdam University Press Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the
Book SynopsisBeyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism — and charts its loss — in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945 to 1949 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grassroots levels in India and Australia. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was buried behind the hardening borders of new nations and hostile Cold War blocs, only to reemerge as the basis for the globalisation of later years.Table of ContentsPreface Glossary Abbreviations Part I: Seeing the Region 1 Everybody's Revolution 2 Connections and Mobility Part II: An Asian War 3 Dangerous Oceans: Merchant Seamen and War 4 Home and Away: Invaded, Under Arms or Exiled 5 Sharing the Home Front: Wartime Australia as Transnational Space Part III: The Boycott of Dutch Shipping 6 Boycotting Colonialism: Supporting Indonesian Independence in Australia 7 Seeing the Boycott in the Australian Press 8 Indian Perspectives: The Boycott as Anti-Colonialism Part IV: Fighting Two Empires 9 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican city 10 Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Surabaya in Australia 11 The Acid Test: Seeing Surabaya in India Part V: Aftermath 12 Breaking the Boycott 13 Trading for Freedom 14 Transnational Visions Part VI: Reflections 15 Remembering Heroes Bibliography Index
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University of the Philippines Press Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the
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University of the Philippines Press Insurgents, Clans, and States Political
Book SynopsisThe study shows how rebels who surrendered their arms in exchange for formal authority were unable to compete with powerful clans and local elites who provided basic security; captured increasing amounts of internal revenue allotments under a regime of devolution; and enabled the spread of a shadow economy that boosted their power and allowed citizens to secure their livelihoods with little taxation by the state. The implications are quite startling. Political legitimacy is not necessarily about building a strong state, but about weakening it. Legitimacy may be less about building peace, and more about demonstrating an ability to inflict violence. This book is useful to scholars interested in other contexts of insurgency and rebellion, and in understanding the challenges that lie behind sub-national sub-national state building and political settlements
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The American University in Cairo Press Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond
Book SynopsisBeginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in the region's most populous country, Egypt, led to key questions of why, how, and with what consequences did this occur? Inspired by the "contentious politics" school and Social Movement Theory, Arab Spring in Egypt addresses these issues, examining the reasons behind the collapse of Egypt's authoritarian regime; analyzing the group dynamics in Tahrir Square of various factions and reflecting on the challenges of transitionTrade Review"Its analysis is as fresh as the breathtaking events it covers." - Nathan Brown, George Washington University "Arab Spring in Egypt is a modern history study that brings much greater understanding to light about the views of modern Arab people and the future they see for their country." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionBahgat Korany and Rabab El-MahdiChapter One: The Protesting Middle EastBahgat Korany and Rabab El-MahdiPart One: Authoritarianism: How Persistent?Chapter Two: Concentrated Power Breeds Corruption, Repression and ResistanceAnn LeschChapter Three: The Political Economy of Mubarak’s FallSamer SolimanChapter Four: Dynamics of a Stagnant Religious Discourse and the Rise of New Secular Movements in EgyptNadine SikaPart Two: Group Dynamics in the Tahrir SquareChapter Five: Working Class Power in Egypt’s 2011 Uprising?Dina BisharaChapter Six: Youth Movements and the January 25 RevolutionDina ShehataChapter Seven: Islamism In and After Egypt’s RevolutionIbrahim Al-HoudaibyChapter Eight: Women are Also Part of This RevolutionHania SholkamyChapter Nine: Back on Horse? The Military between Two RevolutionsHazem KandilPart Three: Beyond the ImmediateChapter Ten: Egypt’s Civic Revolution Turns “Democracy Promotion” on Its HeadSheila CarapicoChapter Eleven: Democratization and Constitutional Reform in Egypt and Indonesia: Evaluating the Role of the MilitaryJaved Maswood & Usha TarajanChapter Twelve: Authoritarian Transformation or Transition from Authoritarianism? Insights on Regime Change in EgyptHolger AlbrechtPart Four: Looking AheadChapter Thirteen: The Arab Spring, the New Pan-Arabism and the Challenges of TransitionBahgat Korany
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The American University in Cairo Press Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman's Diary
Book SynopsisWhat it was like and how it felt to be an Egyptian woman revolutionary during the eighteen days that changed Egypt foreverMona Prince’s humorous and insightful memoir tells of one woman’s journey as a hesitant revolutionary through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.Alongside the brutal violence of the security forces, the daily battles of resistance, and the author’s own abduction and beating at the hands of the police, this is a story of exceptional solidarity, perseverance, and humanity. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear, certitude and anxiety, Prince immerses us in the details of each unpredictable and fateful day. She mixes the political and the personal, the public and the private to expose and confront divisions within her family, as well as her own social prejudices, which she discovers through encounters with diverse sectors of society, from police conscripts to street children.Revolution Is My Name is a testimony not only of women’s participation in the Egyptian uprising and their courage in confronting constrictive gender divides at home and on the street, but equally of their important contribution as chroniclers of the momentous events of January and February 2011.Trade Review"For thinking about how the collective memory of revolution is being created right now, even as the revolution regains its steam, there is no better place to start than with Mona Prince's remarkable memoir of the 25 January Uprising. Revolution is My Name (Ismi Thawra) tells the story of revolution as it unfolds over eighteen days. It is a literary memoir in the best sense of the word. By this, I mean that it expresses and reflects on, rather than documents a set of lived experiences. Moreover, it is not merely a story about the unfolding of a revolution as told by a participant who was there. Arguably, the more important story is about the character of the narrator developing as an evolving, complicated revolutionary."—Elliott Colla, Jadaliyya"Prince's prose is experientially unsettling and yet irrationally jovial, much like the iconic eighteen days she so vividly helps us relive. As revolution drifts further into individual and communal memory, Prince's retelling will remain a stubborn testament to the moments of hopeful triumph over the status quo."—Adel Iskandar, scholar of Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC"This book offers a first rate discussion of all the important issues with which Egypt and Egyptians of different classes, genders, generations, ethnic groups, and political orientations continue to struggle. It encourages its readers to stay tuned to see what the Egyptian revolution, and those funny and unpredictable Egyptians, will eventually deliver."—Mervat F. Hatem, Professor of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC"Revolution is My Name is a beautifully written, detailed text, bringing together Facebook statuses, discussions on the streets, at home, and with friends, life on a daily basis in Tahrir, conversations with military and police soldiers, and much more. A must read for anyone interested in the experiential level of the revolution."—Atef Said, Visiting scholar and lecturer in Sociology, the University of Illinois at Chicago"A unique contribution . . . by an observant and intelligent woman writer with an understanding of ordinary people."—Banipal"Mona Prince’s 2012 Revolution is My Name, recounts a single protestor’s experience through the 18 days between the revolution’s start and President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. Fictions like Prince’s met the ferment of the moment, building on the ideas that fueled the revolution even as its participants reckoned with its brutal outcome."—LitHubTable of Contents1. Tuesday, January 25, 20112. Wednesday, January 26, 20113. Suez4. Thursday, January 27, 20115. Friday of Rage, January 28, 20116. Saturday January 297. Sunday, January 30: Afternoon8. The First Million-Protestor March: Tuesday, February 19. Wednesday, February 2: The Battle of the Camel10. Thursday, February 311. Friday of Departure12. The Week of Perseverance13. Friday of Deliverance: February 11
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The American University in Cairo Press Farewell Shiraz: An Iranian Memoir of Revolution
Book SynopsisIn October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled city of Shiraz and his coming of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Back in London, he reflected on what had happened to him and his family after their uprooting and decided to conduct his own investigation into why he lost his country. He spent the next ten years seeking out witnesses who would shed light on the last days of Pahlavi rule. Among those he met were a former empress, ex-courtiers, disaffected revolutionaries, and the bereaved relatives of those who perished in the cataclysm. In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the 1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key witnesses to the Shah's fall and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the people interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of the momentous events that took place and the human drama behind them. Combining exquisite vignettes with rare testimonials and first-hand interviews, Farewell Shiraz draws us into a sweeping yet often intimate account of a vanished world and offers a compelling investigation into a political earthquake whose reverberations still live with us today.
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Zeitouna Wall Talk: Graffiti of the Egyptian Revolution
Book SynopsisAn epic journey through the street art and graffiti of the January 2011 Egyptian revolutionThe Egyptian Revolution of 2011 gave birth to an unprecedented explosion of popular political and social expression in the form of bold, defiant, and often unforgettable street art and graffiti. This acted as both the revolution's chronicle, its commentary and response to the headlong rush of events, and as a driver of the revolution, a powerful means of influencing and directing what people felt, thought, and did during the heady days and months that followed from the 25 January 2011 uprising. Wall Talk takes us on an epic journey through the street art and graffiti that filled Egypt's streets between the twenty-fifth of January 2011 and the thirtieth of June 2012. Matched with a corresponding timeline of the key events of those eighteen months, it presents an enthralling and invaluable record of a moment in time that changed the course of Egyptian history forever.
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ISEAS Myanmar in Crisis: Living with the Pandemic and
Book SynopsisMyanmar in Crisis brings together scholars from across the social sciences to analyse the dual crises of COVID-19 and the 2021 military coup. All of the essays address one of four themes around the concept of crisis: society in crisis, a state in crisis, an economy in crisis, and international relations in crisis. Several authors examine the contested nature of state authority in the post-coup revolutionary context, including the emergence of new governance dynamics; others discuss heterogenous forms of resistance and the potential for building a more inclusive, just, and tolerant society in the future of Myanmar.The volume also explores the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the coup and its devastating effects on people's lives and livelihoods: the authors provide a deep dive into the impacts of restrictive COVID-19 prevention measures on local communities, the growing livelihoods crisis since the coup, and the impacts of both crises on foreign trade and investment. Scaling up from that local perspective, the book also looks at Myanmar's history of foreign relations, the response of the international community to the coup and the challenges faced by foreign governments and regional bodies in navigating the deteriorating political situation. Held together, the volume highlights the ongoing state of crisis in Myanmar, its impact on society and the possibilities for recovery and reform, amidst a powerful new revolutionary movement. Beyond providing crucial insights to Southeast Asian area specialists, the book offers deep insights into the way that multiple crises interact, amplify one another, and open up possibilities for hope amidst tragedy.
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NUS Press Red Star Over Malaya: Resistance and Social
Book SynopsisRed Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial conflicts between Malays and Chinese during the final stages and the aftermath of the Japanese occupation. As Japanese forces retreated into the big cities, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages. The ensuing conflict involving the Malayan Communist Party, the Malay population and the British Military Administration marked a crucial stage in the history of Malaya. Based on extensive archival research in Malaysia, Great Britain, Japan and the United States, Red Star Over Malaya provides a riveting account of the way the Japanese occupation reshaped colonial Malaya, and of the tension-filled months that followed surrender. This book is fundamental to an understanding of social and political developments in Malaysia during the second half of the 20th century. First published in 1987, this book is a 'must' for any student of history in Southeast Asia. This edition contains a new foreword from the author.
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NUS Press To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th
Book SynopsisThe twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia entered the modern community of nation-states through political revolution. This revolution has often been denied or downplayed as a failure because it did not have a communist outcome like those of China and Vietnam. A much better analogy is the French revolution - a profound breaking with and discrediting of the ancien regime but without the guiding hand of a disciplined party intent on power. Like other revolutions, it demanded a huge price in violence, human suffering, and the loss of cultural traditions; like them too, it offered a glittering prize. The prize turned out not to be the freedom and equality of which the revolutionaries had dreamt, but a previously inconceivable unity enforced by a state of a completely new kind. The Faustian bargain in by which Indonesia was created in the 1940s is at the heart of this book. All the chapters save one have been revissed and updated for this publication, with the injection of some additional optimism called for by post-1998 democracy. The exception is the earliest paper, from 1967, on the paroxysm of violence that punctuated Indonesia's independent history from 1965-1966. This piece has been left unchanged as a document in the early quest for understanding of those horrific events.
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NUS Press Revolution in the City of Heroes: A Memoir of the
Book SynopsisWritten by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, or “Hario Kecik”, Revolution in the City of Heroes, is an evocative first-hand account of a popular uprising. The book vividly portrays the chaotic swirl of events and the heady emotion of young people ready to sacrifice their lives for a great cause.Newly liberated from nearly four brutal years under Japanese control, the people of Indonesia faced great uncertainty in October 1945. As the British Army attempted to take control of the city of Surabaya, maintain order and deal with surrendered Japanese personnel, their actions were interpreted by the young residents of Surabaya as a plan to restore Dutch colonial rule. In response, the youth of the city took up arms and repelled the force sent to occupy the city. They then held off British reinforcements for two weeks, battling tanks and heavy artillery with nothing more than light weapons and sheer audacity. Though eventually defeated, Surabaya’s defenders had set the stage for Indonesia’s national revolution.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The French Revolution
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