ISBN10: 6028397555, ISBN13: 9786028397551, [publisher: Equinox Publishing 2009-11] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]

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ISBN10: 6028397555, ISBN13: 9786028397551, [publisher: Equinox Publishing] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Indonesian Revolution (1945-1950) was the occasion by which Indonesia achieved political independence. But the way in which this common twentieth century event came about, in the general violence and exaltation of a true revolution, made it far more important than that. Like the Mexican, Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese revolutions, the Indonesian Revolution has been the central event in its country's whole modern history. For this reason, any addition to the small stock of good English-language writings on the Revolution, like Report from Banaran, is doubly welcome, not only for what it can tell us about the event itself but also for what it can tell us about the Indonesian condition in modern times.General Simatupang - a Christian Batak with a Dutch education who helped lead a guerrilla war in the Javanese countryside, a man who while still in his twenties was simultaneously one of the principal founders of the Indonesian army and one of the key figures in four years of diplomatic negotiations with the Dutch-is well qualified by background and experience for his subject. Two short periods stand out in the history of the Indonesian Revolution: its first great explosion between August 1945 and mid-1946, and its climax - which is the main subject of Report from Banaran-between December 1948 and July 1949. The ...
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ISBN10: 6028397555, ISBN13: 9786028397551, [publisher: Equinox Publishing] Softcover Like New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]