The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Paperback - Tineke Hellwig

Reducere. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a...

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic Afr...

Reducere. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ra...

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European ...

Reducere. DescriptionTracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspecti...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation a...

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Reducere. The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Mexicos--the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary...

Reducere. The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's r...

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

This revised and updated edition of The Mexico Reader provides an expansive and comprehensive guide to the many varied histories and cultures of Me...

Reducere. Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture offers a concise, engaging introduction to the historical, political and cultural dynamics of Indonesia, the ...

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

When Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo was sworn in as the seventh President of the Republic of Indonesia, taking over from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the change...

DescriptionThe American founders did not endorse a citizen's right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor's communication...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Reducere. The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from La...

A definitive reader for all students of food history, comprised of primary source extracts spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the prese...

DescriptionDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinati...

This textbook is a comprehensive and easily accessible reference for both students and scholars of Indonesian politics. Up-to-date and written in a...

The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics & Culture is a rare bird. It deals with topics of Irish political and cultural history...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

This book makes available, for the first time in English, essays and poetry published in the seminal postcolonial Moroccan journal of culture and p...

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing signifi...

Reducere. This succinct work of history charts the growth of Indonesia, a remarkable nation of more than 6, 000 inhabited islands. With lucid originality, th...