Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation
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Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation
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Author : Elizabeth Pisani
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-06-23
Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation written by Elizabeth Pisani and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Travel categories.
Contains 12 videos, 22 slideshows, 39 stand-alone photographs, 2 audio recordings, 11 archival documents, 12 maps, 13 illustrations, 37 hand-drawn icons. Indonesia is one of the most compelling countries on earth; it offers unexpected adventures that range from taking tea with a corpse or a sultan to negotiating crowds of thugs dressed as Islamists protesting against pop star Lady Gaga. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation has been celebrated by The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and many other publications as a lively and deeply insightful account of the country’s complexities, but many readers have yearned for illustrations; Indonesia is also visually compelling. This enhanced edition is the answer: it includes videos, slide shows, and archival material collected by the author during her 22,000-kilometer trek around the country in 2012 as well as old letters from generals and rebels harvested from the archives she has kept in her twenty-five-year association with the country. The videos, edited and voiced by Elizabeth Pisani herself, provide an extra insight into the things she found most striking or curious. You don’t need to be online to access any of the content, and the analog-look design ensures that the multimedia materials never get in the way of a good, old-fashioned read. This is a very large file (200 MB), and it works best on an iPad.
Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation
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Author : Elizabeth Pisani
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-06-23
Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation written by Elizabeth Pisani and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Travel categories.
"A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street Journal Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the world’s fourth most populous nation has been working on that "etc." ever since. Author Elizabeth Pisani traveled 26,000 miles in search of the links that bind this disparate nation.
Indonesia Etc
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Author : Elizabeth Pisani
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Indonesia Etc written by Elizabeth Pisani and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Travel categories.
In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse - rich and enchanting but riddled with ineptitude and corruption. Elizabeth Pisani, who first worked in Indonesia 25 years ago as a foreign correspondent, set out in 2011, travelling over 13,000 miles, to rediscover its enduring attraction, and to find the links which bind together this disparate nation. Fearless and funny, and sharply perceptive, she has drawn a compelling, entertaining and deeply informed portrait of a captivating nation.
Out In The Midday Sun
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Author : Margaret Shennan
language : en
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Release Date : 2015-11-01
Out In The Midday Sun written by Margaret Shennan and has been published by Monsoon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with History categories.
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.
Brief History Of Indonesia
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Author : Tim Hannigan
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-18
Brief History Of Indonesia written by Tim Hannigan and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-18 with History categories.
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia 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 dreams—one of the most colorful and fascinating countries in history. These are the islands that Europeans set out on countless voyages of discovery to find and later fought bitterly over in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. This was the land that Christopher Columbus sought, and Magellan actually reached and explored. One tiny Indonesian island was even exchanged for the island of Manhattan in 1667! This fascinating history book tells the story of Indonesia as a narrative of kings, traders, missionaries, soldiers and revolutionaries, featuring stormy sea crossings, fiery volcanoes, and the occasional tiger. It recounts the colorful visits of foreign travelers who have passed through these shores for many centuries—from Chinese Buddhist pilgrims and Dutch adventurers to English sea captains and American movie stars. For readers who want an entertaining introduction to Asia's most fascinating country, this is delightful reading.
The Wisdom Of Whores
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Author : Elizabeth Pisani
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-05-12
The Wisdom Of Whores written by Elizabeth Pisani and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-12 with Social Science categories.
This controversial book addresses how sex and drugs have turned the global epidemic of HIV into a billion-dollar-a-year industry. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani takes a no-holdsbarred approach to finding out exactly why 40 million people are living with HIV and 28 million have already died of AIDS when we have the knowledge, the money, and the means to wipe out the disease in 90 percent of the world.
A History Of Modern Indonesia
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Author : Adrian Vickers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-29
A History Of Modern Indonesia written by Adrian Vickers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-29 with History categories.
This updated edition examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and asks why the country's democratic aspirations have yet to be realized.
Jakarta History Of A Misunderstood City
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Author : Herald van der Linde
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Jakarta History Of A Misunderstood City written by Herald van der Linde and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with History categories.
Jakarta is a fascinating city. It's attraction lies in the incredibly wide variety of people - Indonesians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs and Europeans - who have arrived over the centuries, bringing with them their own habits, folklore and culture. Their descendants have resulted in a vibrant mix of people, most of them making a living along the thousands of small lanes and alleys that criss-cross the kampungs of this enormous city. Artefacts indicate that this area was inhabited from the fifth century. Hundreds of years later, a small trading post on the coast named Kelapa was founded and eventually grew into the mega-city of Jakarta with over twenty million people. This book provides a unique look at the history of Jakarta through the eyes of individuals who have walked its streets through the ages, revealing how some of the challenges confronting the city today - congestion, poverty, floods and land subsidence - mirror the struggles the city has had to face in the past.
Raffles
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Author : Victoria Glendinning
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Raffles written by Victoria Glendinning and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refusing to be satisfied with the trading posts available to the British, he defied Dutch governors and wrangled with warring local rulers to establish what is now a world city. An ardent linguist and zoologist, Raffles spoke fluent Malay and found time to write The History of Java, as well as naming several species of flora and fauna he discovered on his travels. He founded London Zoo and promoted the study of Malay alongside European languages in Southeast Asia. Raffles remains a controversial figure - a utopian imperialist, disobedient employee and knight of the realm who died deeply in debt, predeceased by all but one of his children. He built racial segregation into his urban planning, but was also a staunch abolitionist. Renowned biographer Victoria Glendinning charts Raffles' prodigious rise in this new edition, specially updated for the bicentenary of the foundation of Singapore in 1819. His life was short, complicated and shot through with tragedy, but Raffles' fame lives on.
A Short History Of Indonesia
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Author : Colin Brown
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2003
A Short History Of Indonesia written by Colin Brown and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
New in the Short Histories of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Indonesia and its peoples, from ancient origins to the present day.