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Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unfamiliar and understudied. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country’s origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth century, and the subsequent ...
The 487 maps can be viewed in four different sizes (including thumbnails) and are downloadable in two formats (PDF and JPEG) (each map has the following additional data: File name; Map number...
chapters going through the history of Indonesia; the maps themselves, interspersed within the text while also being accessible through a list, an index, and the Web-based search facility; and extra material such as maps from Van Gelder’s classic school atlas from 1909 and two base maps free for use by anyone who wants to draw new maps.
Interweaving brief, anthropologically-informed stories of aspects of everyday life in Indonesia with broader historical accounts of this region, INDONESIA: History, Heritage, Culture provides textured insights into this vibrant and dynamic archipelago.
Organized into five broad conceptual chapters, the book takes the reader through Indonesia's physical world, into the customs and traditions of its peoples, across the archipelago's pre-modem history, into the colonial age, and, finally, into the world of Indonesia as independent nation-state.
With the pairing of well-chosen maps with succinct, but highly infor- mative explanatory text, Robert Cribb has succeeded in presenting an excellent atlas made all the more useful by an admirable index.
The text and accompanying maps move chronolog-ically from distant geological time, through Indonesia’s prehistory and the initial peopling of the archipelago, to the documented historical past. The latter is divided neatly at the year 1800 into pre-colonial...
