The Dark Side of Paradise : Political Violence in Bali

RobinsonGeoffrey: Geoffrey Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The Dark Side of Paradise is an effective attempt to put the politics back into Bali's twentieth-century history. With a sure mastery of both Indonesian and Dutch sources, Robinson analyzes the class tensions between aristocrats and commoners during. "The Dark Side of Paradise is an effective attempt to put the politics back into Bali's twentieth-century history. With a sure mastery of both Indonesian and Dutch sources, Robinson analyzes the class tensions between aristocrats and commoners during the late colonial period."--Times Literary Supplement"Robinson's work reaches beyond history, amply illustrating the possibilities of what might be termed a 'comparative historical sociology' approach."-Indonesia"Robinson's incisive, well-written work demolishes the fiction of the 'peaceful Balinese' that pervades academic and popular literature, and, for the first time, places modern political history directly into the middle of Balinese scholarship."-Choice"This is a brilliant book that must be read by anybody interested in modern Indonesia."-Journal of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology Contents Illustrations Preface A Note on Spelling and Translation Abbreviations and Foreign Terms A Brief Chronology 1. Political Conflict and Violence in Modern Bali: An Overview 2. Colonial Policy and Political Relations in Bali 3. Paupers in Paradise: Bali's Colonial Economy 4. The Japanese Occupation 5. "Anarchy Prevails" 6. The Ideology of Tradition 7. Bali in the National Revolution 8. The Struggle for the State, I950-I965 9. Guns and Gangs 10. A Political Economy of Violence 11. The Massacre 12. Myth and Reality in Bali Selected Bibliography Index