A history of modern Indonesia

Cover; A HISTORY OF MODERN INDONESIA, SECOND EDITION; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, maps and tables; Acknowledgements; A note on spelling, pronunciation and names; Chronology; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Our colonial soil; CONQUERING THE INDIES; ADMINISTERING THE EMPIRE; ETHICAL PROGRESS; PUBLIC WELFARE; MAINTAINING DUTCH SOCIETY; END OF THE IDYLL; CHAPTER 2 Cultures of the countryside; THE STRUGGLE OF THE ARISTOCRACY; EDUCATION AND EMANCIPATION; PEASANTS AGAINST THE COLONIAL STATE; PEASANT SPIRITUALITY; A MOBILE WORKFORCE; ISLAM; CHAPTER 3 'To assail the colonial machine'

THE MODERNNESS OF CITIESCITY LIFESTYLES; CULTURAL LIFE; WORKERS' CITIES; THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT; THE PARTIES; CHAPTER 4 The Revolution; THE ARRIVAL OF THE JAPANESE; EXPERIENCES OF JAPANESE RULE; MOBILISING THE POPULATION; INDEPENDENCE; SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS; FORMING A MILITARY AND A STATE; THE DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION; CHAPTER 5 Living in the atomic age; THE NEW CLASS AND THE NEW STATE; THE FIRST PRINCIPLE: STRUCTURING A FREE INDONESIA IN FAITHFULNESS TO GOD ALMIGHTY; THE SECOND PRINCIPLE: CONSENSUS OR DEMOCRACY; THE THIRD PRINCIPLE: INTERNATIONALISM OR HUMANITARIANISM; PROGRESSIVE ERA.

THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE: SOCIAL PROSPERITYTHE FIFTH PRINCIPLE: NATIONALISM OR NATIONAL UNITY; CHAPTER 6 From the old order to the new; CONTINUING THE REVOLUTION; THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PKI; ESTABLISHING A NEW ORDER; CHAPTER 7 Terror and development in happy land; CRUSHING THE OPPOSITION; BENEFITS OF DEVELOPMENT; THE DEVELOPMENT STATE; CHAPTER 8 Age of globalisation, age of crisis; OPENNESS AND THE FALL OF SUHARTO; VIOLENCE AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS; PRESIDENTS AND OLIGARCHY; REGIONAL AUTONOMY; THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST; Biographies of key figures.

PRESIDENTS, VICE-PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERSOTHER POLITICAL LEADERS; Abbreviations and glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Our colonial soil

Cultures of the countryside

'To assail the colonial machine'

The revolution

Living in the atomic age

From old to new orders

Terror and development in happy land

Age of globalisation, age of crisis.