Indonesia's History Between the Myths by G. J. Resink - 1968: Essays in Legal History and Historical Theory

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Content: This collection of studies by the research professor of Indonesian legal history at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta opens with five primarily theoretical essays that deal with various aspects of Indonesian historiography between the myths, tracing the shift from Europocentric to Indocentric, from colonial to national, and from unconsciously to admittedly subjective, Historical writing. Following these essays are 8 studies in which the author deploys an ever more impressive array of legal and other evidence demonstrating the fallaciousness of one of the major myths of Indonesian history: the myth that for 3350 years the archipelago was dominated by the Dutch.
460 pages, notes, bibliography, glossary, index