‘Without bamboo there wouldn’t have been an Indonesian revolution,” writes David Van Reybrouck—a sweeping assertion of the type that most present-day historians, overspecialized and unadventurous, ...
New spirits : Central Africa draws the attention of East and West, 1870-1885 -- "Diabolical filth" : Congo under Leopold II, 1885-1908 -- The Belgians set us free : the early years of the colonial ...
Revolusi, by David Van Reybrouck (Norton). This powerful account of the colonization of Indonesia takes the form of a people’s history, using interviews with those who lived under—and sometimes defied ...
Tunku Varadarajan is always a good read, but in his review of David Van Reybrouck’s “Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World” (Books, May 25), he is wrong in stating that the Japanese ...
Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president's political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck ...
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