| Description |
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. The past: romance, gods, and guilders -- Ships, spices, and wars -- Gods remodeled -- From Marco Polo to Napoleon -- Prelude to Raffles -- Raffles rules the Indies -- Russian reports on a revolutions -- Indonesia crawls into the modern age -- Shadows of the future -- The unwilling and the weak -- Japan over the Indies -- The return of the Dutch -- Historic blunder -- Victory without success -- Cold War in the tropics -- The day before tomorrow -- The shackles drop -- Empires are obsolete -- Part 2 : Present: persons, places, and problems -- Land without tension -- Sukarno among his people -- Isle of the gods -- Red and the gold -- Sukarno and the communists -- The Asian mind -- All women are created equal -- Djamu, Dukuns, and mystics -- The army in politics -- Military merry-go-round -- Hatta and Sukarno -- Men and money -- The road to happiness -- East or west -- Non-communism and anti-communism -- American policy in Asia -- The man who is Hatta -- Nasution talks -- Interview with Sukarno -- The future of Asia and Africa. |
| Subject |
Indonesia -- History.
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