Tineke Hellwig is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of In the Shadow of Change: Images of Women in Indonesian Literature and a co-editor of Asian Women: Interconnections. Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 and editor of Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Early Histories II. Early Modern Histories III. Cultures in Collision IV. Through Travelers' Eyes V. High Colonial Indies VI. The Last Decades of the Indies VII. From Nationalism to Independence VIII. The Old Order, the New Order-Political Climate IX. Social Issues and Cultural Debates X. Intro the Twenty-First Century Suggestions for Further Reading 451 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 457 Index 465
"Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo have woven together a variety of observations across time to help gain some insight into the astonishingly varied story of a fascinating nation. From reflections on the role of inter-oceanic trade, the flow of world religions, the fight for independence, and ultimately, a just society, the book offers a key corpus of documents to debate and contextualize." Michael Laffan, Princeton University "With selections including scholarly pieces, manifestoes, interviews, speeches, and inscriptions, this volume captures the long sweep of the Indonesian archipelago's history while emphasizing its spectacular diversity. This is a Reader that deserves to be read."--Rudof Mrazek, University of Michigan