Global Indonesia – Jean Gelman Taylor

Global Indonesia - Jean Gelman Taylor

Author: Jean Gelman Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Print Length: 236 pages

Genre: Academic, Non-Fiction / Social Science, Non-Fiction / Sociology

Topic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Community Development, Crisis / Crises, Development, Globalization, Modernity, Modernism, Modern, Nationalism, Policy & Practice, Social Network, Social Work & Services

In the 19th century, colonial rule brought the modern world closer to the Indonesian peoples, introducing mechanized transport, all-weather roads, postal and telegraph communications, and steamship networks that linked Indonesia’s islands to each other, to Europe and the Middle East. This book looks at Indonesia’s global importance, and traces the entwining of its peoples and economies with the wider world.

The book discusses how products unique to Indonesia first slipped into regional trade networks and exposed scattered communities to the dynamic influence of far-off civilizations. It focuses on economic and cultural changes that resulted in the emergence of political units organized as oligarchies or monarchies, and goes on to look in detail at Indonesia’s relationship with Holland’s East Indies Company.

The book analyses the attempts by politicians to negotiate ways of being modern but uniquely Indonesian, and considers the oscillations in Indonesia between movements for theocracy and democracy. It is a useful contribution for students and scholars of World History and Southeast Asian Studies.

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Map of  Indonesia

  1. Introduction: globalization and Indonesia
  2. Early encounters: archaic globalization
  3. The global corporation comes to Indonesia: VOC
  4. Colonisalism: agent of modern globalization
  5. Colonial  regimes: creators of the modern Indonesian
  6. Coming of age: post-colonial globalization
  7. Competing globalizations
  8. Conclusion: oscillations

 

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Jean Gelman Taylor is an academic and historian. She studied at the University of Melbourne before earning a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She eventually became a professor of history at the University of New South Wales. Her research focus is Southeast Asian history, including Indonesian social history, modernity, Islamic identity, and the role of women.
In 2003 she published Indonesia: Peoples and Histories. This book discusses Indonesian history based on diverse ethnic groups and interacting societies. Taylor focused on social issues, religion, economic development as opposed to the traditional approach in historical research which focuses on political events.

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