The Killing Season
A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
$46.82
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2019
Summary
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human ri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691196497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691196494 |
| Author: | Geoffrey B. Robinson |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 652g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity |
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Critics Review
“Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide”
“Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies”“Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History”“Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide”“Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars”“One of the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2018: History”“One of Foreign Affairs’ Picks for Best of Books 2018”
About The Author
Geoffrey B. Robinson
Geoffrey B. Robinson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise and “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die” (Princeton).
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