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Forty-odd years ago, when I became involved in the study of Southeast Asia, it appeared to be a new region, struggling to assert itself in the political world from the lingering ties of colonialism and in the academic world from those who would absorb it in the empires of Further India or the Far East. The centre of this new field of study was indisputably the United States, where in the 1950s and early 1960s Southeast Asia programmes were set up as part of the great expansion of regional studies funded by the US government and foundations. Their guiding assumption was that the interests of America and what would become known as the Third World were compatible and that sympathetic knowledge would aid in bringing about progress towards modernity as envisioned in the American dream.

Uses examples from historical and modern Indonesian societies and from various religions of the archipelago to illuminate the relationship between religion and political power.

Frontmatter --Preface /Kahin, George Mct. --Contents --Introduction --I. Communists, Socialists, and the Colonies --II. Birth of the Revolutionary Movement --III. Becoming a Communist Party --IV. Joining the Comintern --V. The Bloc Within --VI. Elective Affinities --VII. Semaun's Program --VIII. The Bloc Above --IX. International Relations --X. Deviation --XI. Making a Revolution --XII. The Rebellions --XIII. Turning Points --Notes and Index

Cover -- Contents -- The Materialization of the Southeast Asian Entrepreneur -- Capitalist Development in Postwar Thailand: Commercial Bankers, Industrial Elite, and Agribusiness Groups -- Industrialization and the Economic and Political Development of Capital: the Case of Indonesia -- Entrepreneurship and Protection in the Indonesian Oil Service Industry -- The Transformation of Malaysian Business Groups -- The Chinese Business Elite of Malaysia -- Marcos, His Cronies, and the Philippines' Failure to Develop -- Changing Patterns of Chinese Big Business in Southeast Asia -- Politics and the Growth of Local Capital in Southeast Asia: Auto Industries in the Philippines and Thailand -- Contributors