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The Blood of the People. Revolution & the End of the Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra.
by REID, ANTHONY
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Singapore.: NUS Press.. New Edition.. 2014.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 301pp, appendix, bibliography, index, paperback. Upper corner slightly bumped. "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 evolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra a wave of violence and killing wiped out the traditional elite in 1945-46. Anthony Reid's The Blood of the People, now available in a new edition, explores the circumstances of Sumatra's sharp break with the past during what has been labelled its "social revolution."
The events in northern Sumatra were among the most dramatic episodes of Indonesia's national revolution, and brought about more profound changes even than in Java, from where the revolution is normally viewed. Some ethnic groups saw the revolution as a popular, peasant-supported movement that liberated them from foreign rule. Others, though, felt victimised by a radical, levelling agenda imposed by outsiders. Java, with a relatively homogeneous population, passed through the revolution without significant social change. The ethnic complexity of Sumatra, in contrast, meant that the revolution demanded an altogether new "Indonesian" identity to override the competing ethnic categories of the past." (Publisher's description). .
The events in northern Sumatra were among the most dramatic episodes of Indonesia's national revolution, and brought about more profound changes even than in Java, from where the revolution is normally viewed. Some ethnic groups saw the revolution as a popular, peasant-supported movement that liberated them from foreign rule. Others, though, felt victimised by a radical, levelling agenda imposed by outsiders. Java, with a relatively homogeneous population, passed through the revolution without significant social change. The ethnic complexity of Sumatra, in contrast, meant that the revolution demanded an altogether new "Indonesian" identity to override the competing ethnic categories of the past." (Publisher's description). .
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- Title
- The Blood of the People. Revolution & the End of the Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra.
- Author
- REID, ANTHONY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9971696371
- ISBN 13
- 9789971696375
- Publisher
- NUS Press.
- Place of Publication
- Singapore.
- Date Published
- 2014.
- Keywords
- Asia, Colonial History, Indonesia, Politics, revolutions & coups, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, zz_Gallery_NewBooks
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