An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926

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Takashi Shiraishi examines the emergence during the first quarter of the twentieth century of an Indonesian popular movement (called pergerakan). Expressed in such forms as newspapers, rallies, trade unions, revolts, novels, and songs, this popular movement marked a time when Indonesians began to view their world in a new way, to articulate this new consciousness in modern forms, and to believe that these expressions could have a political effect. Modern Indonesian politics was born in the pergerakan, and Indonesian nationalism, Islamism, and communism, as political movements, trace their origins to this period. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1. The Arena -- 2. The Birth of the Pergerakan -- 3. The Age in Motion -- 4. The Insulinde and Peasant Strikes in Surakarta -- 5. Solo in the Pergerakan -- 6. The Age of Reaction, the Age of Parties -- 7. Islamism and Communism -- 8. Final Years -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index