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Banditry in West Java, 1869-1942
Margreet Van Till
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Description for Banditry in West Java, 1869-1942
Paperback. Translator(s): McKay, David; Jackson, Beverley. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which often went beyond simple self-enrichment. The author also explores the world of the victims of the robbers, mainly city-dwellers, who viewed them as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient subjects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, violence, and magic. Banditry was brought under control following reforms to the colonial police force in the Dutch East Indies in the early 1920s, but the bandit tradition ... Read more
Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which often went beyond simple self-enrichment. The author also explores the world of the victims of the robbers, mainly city-dwellers, who viewed them as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient subjects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, violence, and magic. Banditry was brought under control following reforms to the colonial police force in the Dutch East Indies in the early 1920s, but the bandit tradition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971695026
SKU
V9789971695026
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Ref
99-15
About Margreet Van Till
Margreet van Till is a Researcher at the Institute for Netherlands History, and deals primarily with the colonial Netherlands East Indies.
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