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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jess melvin”
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  • The Army and the Indonesian Genocide

    Mechanics of Mass Murder

    by Jess Melvin ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign.Using documents from the ... Read more

    Was $94.99 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • The Indonesian Genocide of 1965

    Causes, Dynamics and Legacies

    Edited by Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin, Annie Pohlman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses.Chapter 12 of ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide

    Edited by Annie Pohlman, Jess Melvin, Saskia Wieringa ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965.This book offers new and ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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    Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

    by Doug Saunders ...
    Even among people who would never subscribe to its more dramatic claims, the "Eurabia" movement has popularized a set of seemingly common-sense assumptions about Muslim immigrants to the West: that they are disloyal, that they have a political agenda driven by their faith, that their nhigh reproduction rates will soon make them a majority. These beliefs are poisoning politics and community ... Read more

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  • Blood and Silk

    Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

    by Michael Vatikiotis ...
    Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of the world?Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Killing Season

    A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

    by Geoffrey B. Robinson ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets ... Read more

    Was $49.49 CAD Now $30.79 CAD

  • Sutan Sjahrir, Little Brother’s Lasting Legacy

    Historical Indonesian Figures, #8

    by Nugroho Dewanto et al. ...
    Series Book 8 - Historical Indonesian Figures
    Sutan Sjahrir was one of the seven Fathers of Indonesian Revolution. He urged Sukarno and Hatta to declare Indonesian independence although he himself was not present on the big day. He chose an elegant way to drive the Dutch out of Indonesia, a way which was opposed by the other Fathers of Indonesian Revolution. His anti-fascist, anti-military ideology was criticized as only fit for an educated ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy

    Domestic Weakness and the Dilemma of Dual Identity

    by Rizal Sukma ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia

    From Soil to God

    by Chris Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. For almost a year, militias waged a brutal religious war which claimed the lives of almost four thousand ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Islam and Nation

    Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia

    by Edward Aspinall ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement.Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD