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From Vienna to Yogyakarta : the life of Herb Feith / Jemma Purdey.
LIBRA DS135.A8 .P87 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdey, Jemma, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feith, Herbert.
- Jewish refugees--Australia--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Political scientists--Australia--Biography.
- Political scientists.
- College teachers--Australia--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Pacifists--Australia--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Indonesia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Indonesia.
- Politics and government.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Herb Feith came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from war-torn Europe in 1939 and went on to become an internationally renowned and passionate scholar of Indonesia. He died tragically in Melbourne in 2001.
- Contents:
- Part 1
- 1 Childhood (1930-45) 12
- 2 Youth (1945-51) 43
- Part 2
- 3 Going up: Indonesia (1951-53) 86
- 4 Engaging Indonesia (1953-56) 148
- Part 3
- 5 Cornell years (1957-60) 208
- 6 Young scholar at work (1961-65) 245
- 7 Indonesia's cataclysm (1965-69) 275
- Part 4
- 8 The professorial years (1969-77) 324
- 9 Imagining peace (1978-90) 388
- Part 5
- 10 Retirement, 'repatterning' and renewal (1991-2001) 450.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781742232805
- 1742232809
- OCLC:
- 782049250
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