The blood of the people : revolution and the end of traditional rule in northern Sumatra /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reid, Anthony, 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Politics and government.
Aceh (Indonesia) > Politics and government.
Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) > Politics and government.
Indonesia > Aceh.
Indonesia > Sumatera Utara.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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