Dutch East Indies and Indo History & Culture

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We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia 4.47 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 4.42 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Company Daughters
The Company Daughters 4.02 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos 4.02 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World 4.61 avg rating — 14,804 ratings
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End the Silence
End the Silence 4.53 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II 3.97 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World 4.54 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia 1945-1962
The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia 1945-1962 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The British Occupation of Indonesia, 1945-1946: Britain, the Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution
The British Occupation of Indonesia, 1945-1946: Britain, the Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World 4.61 avg rating — 14,804 ratings
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Being “Dutch” in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920 (Volume 116) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)
Being “Dutch” in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920 (Volume 116) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors' Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia
The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors' Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Merdeka: One Man’s Fight to Free a Nation From Colonial Oppression
Merdeka: One Man’s Fight to Free a Nation From Colonial Oppression it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand in A Brief Read: A Summary
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand in A Brief Read: A Summary 4.49 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Best Collection of Louis Couperus:
The Best Collection of Louis Couperus: it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hidden Force
Hidden Force 3.58 avg rating — 3,346 ratings
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De njai: Het concubinaat in Nederlands-Indië
De njai: Het concubinaat in Nederlands-Indië 4.09 avg rating — 185 ratings
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In Other Words: 40 Years of Writing on Indonesia
In Other Words: 40 Years of Writing on Indonesia 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Not Enough Said: My father’s Story: One man’s survival in captivity in the Far East during WWII
Not Enough Said: My father’s Story: One man’s survival in captivity in the Far East during WWII
by: Duke Sell
4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Sapphire Promise: Based on a true story of loyalty, trust, and unfailing love
Sapphire Promise: Based on a true story of loyalty, trust, and unfailing love 4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century
Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century 3.76 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Journey To Hell A True account: A True account
Journey To Hell A True account: A True account it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Our Childhood in the Former Colonial Dutch East Indies: Recollections Before and During Our Wartime Internment by the Japanese
Our Childhood in the Former Colonial Dutch East Indies: Recollections Before and During Our Wartime Internment by the Japanese 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gamelan Stories Tantrism Islam and Aesthetics in Central Java: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java (Monographs in Southeast Asian Studies)
Gamelan Stories Tantrism Islam and Aesthetics in Central Java: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java (Monographs in Southeast Asian Studies) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese 4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings
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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Shadow of the Sun: Based on an Extraordinary True Story of Survival during WWII Japanese Occupation of the Dutch Indies
Shadow of the Sun: Based on an Extraordinary True Story of Survival during WWII Japanese Occupation of the Dutch Indies 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure 3.86 avg rating — 779 ratings
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The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World
The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World 3.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Shadow Princess: An Indonesian Story
Shadow Princess: An Indonesian Story 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo 4.29 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World 3.93 avg rating — 247 ratings
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On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903 (Revised edition)
On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903 (Revised edition) 4.04 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Diary of Prisoner 17326: A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp
The Diary of Prisoner 17326: A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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White Slaves: 15 Years a Barbary Slave: The shocking abduction of the citizens of Baltimore, Ireland by the famous Dutch corsair and pirate Murad Reis and the horror of the Barbary slave trade.
White Slaves: 15 Years a Barbary Slave: The shocking abduction of the citizens of Baltimore, Ireland by the famous Dutch corsair and pirate Murad Reis and the horror of the Barbary slave trade. 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings
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I Thought You Should Know
I Thought You Should Know 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Comfort Women
Comfort Women really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Traces of War
Traces of War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays
On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Slamat Makan: The Art of Indonesian Cooking
Slamat Makan: The Art of Indonesian Cooking it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Indo Dutch Kitchen Secrets: Stories & Favorite Family Recipes From Stroopwefel to Rijsttafel
Indo Dutch Kitchen Secrets: Stories & Favorite Family Recipes From Stroopwefel to Rijsttafel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Rising from the Shadow of the Sun
Rising from the Shadow of the Sun 4.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Marsini's Gift: The Story of an Indo Family
Marsini's Gift: The Story of an Indo Family 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II 4.19 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company
Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company
by: Multatuli
3.53 avg rating — 10,236 ratings
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Two Slices of Bread: Interned in a Japanese concentration camp, evacuated to the Netherlands, then finding peace at last at the bottom of the world
Two Slices of Bread: Interned in a Japanese concentration camp, evacuated to the Netherlands, then finding peace at last at the bottom of the world 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II
Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II 4.04 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Bowing to the Emperor: We Were Captives in WWII
Bowing to the Emperor: We Were Captives in WWII 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Sumatran Shadows
Sumatran Shadows it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia
Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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East Indies
East Indies 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy
Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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What Is Written on the Tongue
What Is Written on the Tongue 3.96 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II
Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II 3.90 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Social World of Batavia: A History of Dutch Asia
The Social World of Batavia: A History of Dutch Asia 3.78 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Interpreter from Java
The Interpreter from Java 3.57 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
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Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet, #2)
Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 7,732 ratings
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House of Glass (Buru Quartet, #4)
House of Glass (Buru Quartet, #4) 4.35 avg rating — 4,315 ratings
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Footsteps (Buru #3)
Footsteps (Buru #3) 4.40 avg rating — 6,255 ratings
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Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Running in the Family
Running in the Family 3.83 avg rating — 9,732 ratings
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All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents 4.25 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Black Lake
The Black Lake 3.47 avg rating — 8,307 ratings
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The Flamboya Tree : Memories of a Family's War-Time Courage
The Flamboya Tree : Memories of a Family's War-Time Courage 4.22 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule 3.88 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Cockatoo's Lie
Cockatoo's Lie 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 (International Studies in Social History, 9)
Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 (International Studies in Social History, 9) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History 3.82 avg rating — 5,239 ratings
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Merchant in Asia: The Trade of the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century
Merchant in Asia: The Trade of the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade
The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade 3.86 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Batik Belanda, 1840 1940: Dutch Influence in Batik from Java, History and Stories
Batik Belanda, 1840 1940: Dutch Influence in Batik from Java, History and Stories 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis 4.21 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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Man Tiger
Man Tiger 4.04 avg rating — 7,054 ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 4.03 avg rating — 60,933 ratings
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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi 3.95 avg rating — 5,254 ratings
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The Ten Thousand Things
The Ten Thousand Things 3.80 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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Pasar Malam Selamat Datang In Holland: A True Dutch-Indonesian Story
Pasar Malam Selamat Datang In Holland: A True Dutch-Indonesian Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ibu Maluku: The Story of Jeanne van Diejen
Ibu Maluku: The Story of Jeanne van Diejen 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Mixed Blood: Reconciling My Colonial Family's History in the Dutch East Indies
Mixed Blood: Reconciling My Colonial Family's History in the Dutch East Indies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family’s Colonial History in Indonesia (Volume 119) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)
Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family’s Colonial History in Indonesia (Volume 119) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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This Earth of Mankind (Buru #1)
This Earth of Mankind (Buru #1) 4.43 avg rating — 21,804 ratings
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The Temple with the Crysanthemums: Dutch Prisoners of War in Tokyo
The Temple with the Crysanthemums: Dutch Prisoners of War in Tokyo 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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See JANE Run: A Primer on Love, Resilience, and the American Indo Dream
See JANE Run: A Primer on Love, Resilience, and the American Indo Dream it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Tulip Fields of Batavia: An Incredible True Story
Tulip Fields of Batavia: An Incredible True Story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings