Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor /

"One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region's tragic past, focusing on the...

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Main Author: Kammen, Douglas Anton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : situating recurrent mass violence
  • Contested origins
  • Maubara and the Dutch East India Company
  • Vassalage and violence, 1861-1887
  • The uprising and devastation of 1893
  • High colonialism and new forms of oppression, 1894-1974
  • The end of empire and the Indonesian occupation, 1974-1998
  • Serious crimes and the politics of the past, 1999-2012.