Session 1: The Emergence of Independent Southeast Asian States
Session 2:
- The Indonesian and Vietnamese Revolutions
- The Indonesian Revolution and the New Generation of Nationalists: Artists and Writers
Reading:
Robert McMahon, “The United States and Southeast Asia in an Era of Decolonization,” in Marc Frey, et al., (eds.), The Transformation of Southeast Asia. International Perspectives on Decolonization, Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2003, (pp213-225)
Barbara Harvey, “Diplomacy and Armed Struggle in the Indonesian National Revolution: Choice and Constraint in a Comparative Perspective,” in Daniel S. Lev and Ruth McVey, (eds.), Making Indonesia. Essays in Honor of George McT. Kahin, Ithaca, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1996, (pp66-80)
William H. Frederick, “Brothers of a Kind: Perspectives on Comparing the Indonesian and Vietnamese Revolutions,” in Taufik Abdullah, (ed.), The Heartbeat of [the] Indonesian Revolution, Jakarta: Gramedia, 1997, (pp1-19)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “Acceptance,” in Reflections on Rebellion: Stories from the Indonesian Upheavals of 1948 and 1965, William H. Frederick and John McGlynn (trans.), Athens, Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1983, (pp7-48)
S. Rukiah Kertapati, “An Affair of the Heart,” in Reflections on Rebellion: Stories from the Indonesian Upheavals of 1948 and 1965, William H. Frederick and John McGlynn (trans.), Athens, Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1983, (pp49-105)
Idrus, “ Surabaya,” S.U. Nababan and B. Anderson (trans.), Indonesia 5, April 1968, (pp1-28)
William Frederick is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Hawaii. His current projects include a book on violence in the Indonesian Revolution; a book (as co-editor and chapter author) entitled Indonesia: A Country Study. (Library of Congress, forthcoming end 2005); a book (as co-editor and contributions author) entitled Encyclopedia of Indonesia in World War Two (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, forthcoming: 2006); and a book entitled A History of Southeast Asia. (forthcoming, Prentice Hall, 2007). Recent publications include: “Shadows of an Unseen Hand, Some Patterns of Violence in the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949,” in Roots of Violence in Indonesia (Leiden, KITLV Press, 2002); and “Blood Spilled in Darkness: Killings in the Early Indonesian Revolution (East Java, October 1945)” in an as yet untitled publication from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.
