The blood of the people : revolution and the end of traditional rule in northern Sumatra /
In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra a wave of violence and killing wiped...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Second edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Patterns of kingship
- Dutch-Occupied Aceh
- The ethnic web of East Sumatra
- 1942 : the hands declared
- The Japanese experience
- The agents of revolution in East Sumatra
- Eclipse of the Uleëbalang
- "Social Revolution"
- Princes, politicians, and peasants
- Appendix. Government offce-holders, 1945-46
- Bibliography
- Index.