Killing Season - A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

Zusatztext "One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018" Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey B. Robinson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise and "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" (Princeton). Klappentext "Finally, a full accounting of one of the most brutal events in twentieth-century history. Geoffrey Robinson's The Killing Season documents, in chilling detail, the mass murder of half a million Indonesians between 1965 and 1966. Based on fine-grained research, Robinson's book is a model of analytical and moral clarity, shining a damning light on U.S. complicity in the atrocity. This is a tour de force." --Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia "This elegantly written and carefully crafted book provides the single most sustained and systematic evaluation of the competing and contradictory theories concerning the coup which helped to precipitate the mass killings of late 1965 and early 1966 in Indonesia. Robinson's arguments are clear, coherent, and compelling, and the evidence presented is impressively well-documented. This is the definitive account of a highly important aspect of Indonesian history." --John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science "This masterful and engrossing book illuminates the mass violence and incarceration that took place during the transition to the three-decade Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia. Displaying a superb command of Indonesian history and sources, The Killing Season is an important corrective to conventional wisdom about a little-known genocidal campaign that destroyed an estimated 500,000 victims." --Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and Political Science Zusammenfassung The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leavin...

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey B Robinson, Geoffrey B. Robinson, Robinson Geoffrey B.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780691196497
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19649-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Indonesia, c 1960 to c 1969, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General