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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reid, Anthony, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
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.