‘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, ...

David Grégoire Van Reybrouck (born 11 September 1971, in Bruges) is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays ...

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 ...