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Bohlau Verlag Gesellschaftspsychologie Einer Revolution: Die
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£21.40
Bohlau Verlag Beethoven: Werk und Wirkung
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£45.28
V&R unipress GmbH Frauen, wacht auf!: Eine Frauen- und
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£55.95
Sandstein Verlag 1917. Revolution: Russland Und Die Schweiz
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£31.46
Prh Grupo Editorial Revolución de la libertad Revolution of Freedom
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Archeobooks Deconstruction of Natural Order: The Legacy of
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REVOLUCION DE LOS CLAVELES
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Viella Neither Disobedients Nor Rebels: Lawful
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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.
£31.59
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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