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050 00 $aDS649.5$b.K36 2015
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100 1 $aKammen, Douglas Anton,$eauthor.
245 10 $aThree centuries of conflict in East Timor /$cDouglas Kammen.
246 3 $a3 centuries of conflict in East Timor
264 1 $aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$bRutgers University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axv, 231 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aGenocide, political violence, human rights series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : situating recurrent mass violence -- Contested origins -- Maubara and the Dutch East India Company -- Vassalage and violence, 1861-1887 -- The uprising and devastation of 1893 -- High colonialism and new forms of oppression, 1894-1974 -- The end of empire and the Indonesian occupation, 1974-1998 -- Serious crimes and the politics of the past, 1999-2012.
520 $a"One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region's tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor's independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor--from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China--where mass violence keeps recurring"--$cProvided by publisher.
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650 0 $aPolitical violence$zTimor-Leste$xHistory.
650 7 $aPolitical violence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01069902
651 7 $aTimor-Leste.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01733528
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aGenocide, political violence, human rights series.
852 00 $bglx$hDS649.5$i.K36 2015