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War, Nationalism and Peasants: Java Under the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
Authored by: Shigeru Sato

Cloth ISBN: 978-1-56324-544-2	Paper ISBN: 978-1-56324-545-9
Cloth Price	Paper Price
USD: $107.95	USD: $47.95

Not available in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia.

Information: 300pp. Glossary, maps, graphs, tables, figures, bibliography, index.
Publication Date: December 1994.

Comments/Reviews

Description: This book is an important account of growing international interest: wartime Asia, notably Japanese colonialism and the colonial-native interaction. Focusing on Java, Sato explores the enormous human drama which cannot be explained simply in terms of nationalism and fascism. He addresses the totality of Indonesian society: from high politics to the daily lives of landless peasants; from the details of local administration in Java to the intellectual climate in Japan influencing the Japanese rulers.

Synthesizing a wide range of source materials both official and non-official, written and oral, this book presents with striking originality a coherent and comprehensive interpretation of the Japanese occupation of Java.

Selected Contents:
I: The Military Administration for Total Mobilization
Japanese Expansion and Java
Administration through the Indigenous Bureaucracy
Call for Total Mobilization through the Nationalists
Towards the Construction of "New Java"
II: The Peasantry of Java and the Military Administration
Javanese Villages during the Early Occupation
"Control" over Rice
labor Mobilization and Work Conditions

Review(s): "Sato's intent is to set the record straight on the Japanese occupation of Java--and by implication, of the Netherlands Indies--by arguing a `holistic' theory that the people of Java were both passive victims and active players. ... Graduate, faculty." -- Choice

"Using a wide range of sources (Japanese, Dutch, and Indonesian), the author revisits wartime Java. ... Contributes considerable new detail on wartime economic activities, especially concerning rice production and trade." -- Cellar Arrivals

"A careful work on the impact of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia ... on Javanese peasant society in the years 1942-45. ... A very valuable contribution to the historiography of Indonesia during the Second World War, primarily because of its successful combination of macro and micro levels of research." -- The Journal of Military History