Surat-surat Banten merupakan sumber data paling akurat menjadi gerakan arus sejarah Banten pada awal abad ke-18 sampai awal abad ke-19, karena ditulis oleh pelaku sejarah dan ditulis pada saat peristiwanya terjadi. Meskipun demikian, dari pengamatan atas berbagai kajian tentang Banten, belum banyak peneliti yang memanfaatkannya. Buku Perang, Dagang, dan Persahabatan yang ada di hadapan Anda,…
"Dutch colonialism go to hell!" teriak spanduk yang digantungkan di pagar Kedutaan Belanda di Jakarta oleh para demonstran pada tahun 1960. Sejarah bersama dari Nederland dan Indonesia ditandai oleh pertarungan dan kontroversi. Yang Silam, Yang Pedas, Indonesia dan Belanda Sejak 1600 berkisah tentang masa silam bersama yang panjang ini. Pokok-pokok besar seperti penindasan kolonial, kekerasan, …
Agama Islam tidak dilahirkan di Indonesia, namun justru negara inilah yang memiliki penduduk muslim dengan jumlah terbesar di dunia. Bagaimanakah cara agama ini masuk dan berkembang di antara suku dan budaya yang beragam di nusantara? Fondasi pertanyaan ini kemudian menggerakkan Michael Laffan, Profesor Sejarah di Universitas Princenton, untuk meneliti proses tumbuh kembangnya Islam di Indonesi…
In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world. Southeast Asia's interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing on Islamization; Chinese, Siamese, Cham and Javanese tr…
How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically, historically, and cinematically informed reading of colonial film in the archive can be a powerful and unexpected source—one that is more accessible than ever …
Admirers and critics of the Dutch Colonial regime alike conceded that one of its greatest strengths was its utilization of the Javanese aristocracy as a ruling elite. This book explains the nature and the values of that elite, and the ways in which its functions were gradually changed by Dutch pressure, Western education, and nationalist challenge. Dr. Sutherland argues that the features man…
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of “things aid” and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, a…
This monograph is an expansion and comprehensive revision of the first section of my earlier programmatic essay, "The Development of the Javanese Economy: A Socio-Cultural Approach," issued in dittoed form by the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1856 as document C/56-1 in their Economic Development Program series. This book is an attempt to app…
The God Delusion adalah sebuah buku terkenal dan kontroversial yang membahas tema-tema seputar ketuhanan dari kacamata sains (biologi). Buku yang ditulis oleh ahli biologi Inggris ini hingga kini masih menjadi rujukan penting dalam persoalan hubungan agama dan sains. Dalam buku ini Dawkins menyatakan bahwa suatu pencipta supernatural hampir bisa dipastikan tidak ada, dan bahwa kepercayaan pa…
This book attempts a comparative study of the economic and social development of colonial territories in East and Southeast Asia in the first four decades of the twentieth century and of the consequences of that development for the transition to independence after 1945. At the beginning of the twentieth century, five colonial powers were active in East and Southeast Asia. Three were European. T…