Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World (SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE) - Softcover

Reybrouck, David Van

 
9781529931525: Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World (SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529931525 ISBN 13: 9781529931525
Verlag: Vintage, 2025

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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024* *Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize*

A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that changed the course of the 20th century.

'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Noah Harari
'Utterly compelling . . . astonishing' Financial Times
'Superb' Guardian

On a sunny morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia. For three and a half centuries, its people had been subject to Dutch colonial rule. It would take another four years of guerrilla warfare and resistance – the ‘Revolusi’ – to finally win their freedom, blazing a trail that would reshape the world.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck’s superbly woven narrative is alive with human detail at every turn, showing Indonesia’s struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.

*A Financial Times, Evening Standard, History Today and Prospect Best Book of the Year*

‘A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece’ Sebastian Mallaby

‘Masterly . . . compelling . . . convincingly argues that Indonesia in itself represents a global crossroads, one of the most important in modern history’ Elizabeth Pisani, The Times

‘We learn something utterly fascinating on every single page’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year

‘The story of [Indonesia’s] formation is delivered in a manner that genuinely seems unsurpassable’ History Today, Books of the Year

‘Revolusi briskly ushers Indonesia onto the centre stage of modern history’ Pankaj Mishra

‘With rare narrative brilliance, Revolusi gives us a history at once vast and intimate, a history in colour’ Laksmi Pamuntjak

‘A magisterial and gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now’ Jason Burke

‘A wonderful and important book’ Peter Frankopan

‘Majestic and beautifully written’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Immensely readable’ Adam Hochschild, Atlantic

‘An electrifying narrative’ Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal

‘The definitive account of a neglected epoch’ Economist

‘Masterly’ J M Coetzee

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David Van Reybrouck (Author)
David Van Reybrouck is the author of Congo: The Epic History of a People, which won twenty prizes, sold over half a million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. His book Against Elections has been translated into more than twenty languages and has led to the trial use of participatory democracy in numerous countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. His plays Mission and Para have been performed across Europe, and his novel Zinc won the European Book Prize 2017. Revolusi was first published in the Netherlands, where it was a major bestseller. David Van Reybrouck has been described as 'one of the leading intellectuals in Europe' (Der Tagesspiegel) and 'one of the most brilliant European intellectuals of the moment' (Le Soir). He is Belgian, writes in Dutch and is based in Brussels.

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On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia.

Four million civilians had died during the Japanese wartime occupation that ousted its Dutch colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used savage violence to reassert their control, and as Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's guerrilla war of resistance: the 'Revolusi'. It was not until December 1949 that the newly created United Nations finally brought the conflict to an end - and with it, 350 years of colonial rule - setting a precedent that would reshape the world.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529931525
ISBN 13 
9781529931525
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
656
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