A brief history of Indonesia : Sultans, spices, and tsunamis : the incredible story of Southeast Asia's largest nation / Tim Hannigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannigan, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indonesia--History.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont ; Singapore : Tuttle Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.Indonesia is the fabled ""Spice Islands"" of every school child's dreamsone of the most colorful and f

Contents:

Point of departure : the archipelago

From hobbits to Hinduism : prehistory to Indianisation

Empires of imagination : Hindu-Buddhist Java

Saints and winners : the arrival of Islam

Spice invaders : the Europeans arrive

The clash of civilisations : from company to empire

Rust en orde : the Dutch East Indies

Brave new world : the rise of nationalism

Freedom or death : war and revolution

Years of living dangerously : the Sukarno era

A new order : Suharto, crisis, reform

Epilogue : Indonesia, rising.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4629-1716-X

OCLC:

919684253