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Language and Power

Contributor(s): Anderson, Benedict R O'g (Author)

ISBN: 9780801423543

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: January 17, 1991

Dewey: 306.209598

LCCN: 90-55126

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.88" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.41 lbs) 352 pages

Series: The Wilder House Politics, History and Culture

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Description:

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history--that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in...

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"A wonderful collection, rich in ideas and interpretations. In my reading, the central theme of this book is the crisis in Javanese culture which began in the seventeenth century and the attempts of successive generations of Javanese-Indonesians to deal with the crisis."

--R. William Liddle

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