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050 00 $aDS647.B2$bR63 1995
082 00 $a959.8/6$220
100 1 $aRobinson, Geoffrey,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95016271
245 14 $aThe dark side of paradise :$bpolitical violence in Bali /$cGeoffrey Robinson.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c1995.
300 $axxii, 341 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAsia, east by south
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-332) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPolitical Conflict and Violence in Modern Bali: An Overview --$g2.$tColonial Policy and Political Relations in Bali --$g3.$tPaupers in Paradise: Bali's Colonial Economy --$g4.$tThe Japanese Occupation --$g5.$t"Anarchy Prevails" --$g6.$tThe Ideology of Tradition --$g7.$tBali in the National Revolution --$g8.$tThe Struggle for the State, 1950-1965 --$g9.$tGuns and Gangs --$g10.$tA Political Economy of Violence --$g11.$tThe Massacre --$g12.$tMyth and Reality in Bali.
520 $a"Hiking through peaceful villages in central Bali, we found it difficult to envision the fires of retribution that lit the island's skyline just four years ago." Thus in 1969 a reporter for National Geographic summed up the dilemma facing those who think about Bali. How can the bloody massacres that shook the island in the 1960s be reconciled with the pervasive view of Bali as an earthly paradise whose people live in harmony with nature and each other?
520 8 $aGeoffrey Robinson explores this discrepancy, and in doing so exposes the multiple myths about Bali. His work offers the first thorough political history of this varied and complex island.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aScrutinizing the Balinese experience under Dutch colonial rule and during the National Revolution (1945-1949), the Sukarno era (1950-1965), and the military coup and countercoup of 1965, "the year of living dangerously," Robinson discloses previously unexplored conflicts of class and culture which have permeated the island's recent history.
520 8 $aHe shows how the wide shifts in Balinese politics throughout this century - from the apparent harmony of the colonial period to the chronic violence of revolution and coup - are best understood by relating the island's social, cultural, and economic circumstances to the larger political environment, both national and international.
520 8 $aA cogent explanation of Bali's troubled past and paradoxically untroubled reputation, this book is at once a unique history and a critique of popular and scholarly portrayals of modern Bali.
651 0 $aBali Island (Indonesia)$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aPolitical violence$zIndonesia$zBali Island.
830 0 $aAsia, east by south.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90648764
852 00 $bleh$hDS647.B2$iR63 1995