Mapping the Acehnese Past
( Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde )
Publication series ：Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Author： Feener R. Michael;Daly Patrick;Reed Anthony
Publisher： Brill
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9789004253599
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789067183659
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789067183659
Subject： K342.9 Lan
Language： ENG
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Description
Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters—the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on a more positive and neglected claim Aceh has on our attention, as the Southeast Asian maritime state that most successfully and creatively maintained its independent place in the world until 1874. Like Burma, Siam and Vietnam, all better protected by geography, Aceh has its own story to tell of a unique culture struggling for survival through the European colonial era.
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