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Visions and Heat: Making of an Indonesian Revolution by William H. Frederick is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Visions and Heat: Making of an Indonesian Revolution about?
Frederick examines the early, most intense phase of the Indonesian Revolution in what was its most crucial venueIndonesia's second city, Surabaya. The book is at once the most careful and detailed study so far of the dramatic events of August-November 1945 in Surabaya and the first attempt to analyze the extent and nature of mass support of the revolutionary process in a particular Indonesian locale. Contrary to the widely held view that revolution was born in the nationalist vision of a new generation of Indonesians, Frederick argues that there is reason to look more carefully at aspects of continuity across the traditional dividing line of the "three eras" of colonial rule, occupation, and independence and to doubt the thesis of a pemuda (youth) revolution. Using interviews and new sources, Frederick ties the local sentiments and events into the larger history of the period thereby opening new vistas on the nature of the Indonesian Revolution. Crucial to Frederick's revision are several new concepts and interpretations, such as the establishment of a social class termed "new priyayi ," the blending of this class into what is known as the pemuda, the careful delimitation of wha
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William H. Frederick
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780821409053
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Asian History, Humanities