‘Without bamboo there wouldn’t have been an Indonesian revolution,” writes David Van Reybrouck—a sweeping assertion of the type that most present-day historians, overspecialized and unadventurous, ...
New spirits : Central Africa draws the attention of East and West, 1870-1885 -- "Diabolical filth" : Congo under Leopold II, 1885-1908 -- The Belgians set us free : the early years of the colonial ...
Revolusi, by David Van Reybrouck (Norton). This powerful account of the colonization of Indonesia takes the form of a people’s history, using interviews with those who lived under—and sometimes defied ...
The war that brought independence to the world’s fourth-largest country plays out on a resonantly human scale in this captivating chronicle of the 1945–1949 Indonesian revolution. Historian Van ...
Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president's political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck ...
Imprisoned Turkish human rights activist and culture promoter, Osman Kavala, is one three winners of the Goethe MedalWiktor Dabkowski/dpa/picture alliance Imprisoned Turkish cultural promoter and ...