Indonesian Destinies - Hardcover

Friend, Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674011376 ISBN 13: 9780674011373

Verlag: The Belknap Press, 2003

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Book by Friend Theodore

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Theodore Friend has written a most engaging book about Indonesia, looking back over the first 50 years of Indonesian history, profiling many of the people whom he met in the course of researching the subject, and disarming the reader with frankly stated opinions about any number of topics that come up along the way. This is like no other book on Indonesia, far more scholarly than the snapshots of journalists and far more revealing of the author's open personality than most dissertations by academics. It is a book to be savored by readers who already know Indonesia well and to be read with profit by any who hope to join their company. Friend is a genial guide...a consummate reporter...and an indefatigable gatherer of the accounts of others...Friend writes with clarity and wit.--John Bresnan "Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies "

Reseña del editor:

"How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question - and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions - haunt Theodore Friend's work, a narrative of Indonesia during the second half of the 20th century, from the post-war revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest at the beginning of the 21st century. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed first-hand, this book penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart. Friend reveals Sukarno's character through wartime collaboration with Japan, and Suharto's through the mass murder of communists that brought him to power for 32 years. He guides our understanding of the tolerant forms of Islam prevailing among the largest Muslim population in the world, and shows growing tensions generated by international terrorism. Drawing on a deep knowledge of the country's cultures, its leaders and its ordinary people, Friend gives a human face and a sense of immediacy to the self-inflicted failures and immeasurable tragedies that cast a shadow over Indonesia's past and future.

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• Verlag: The Belknap Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0674011376
• ISBN 13: 9780674011373
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544