From Vienna to Yogyakarta : the life of Herb Feith /

From Vienna to Yogyakarta : the life of Herb Feith /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Purdey, Jemma, 1974-
Imprint:	Sydney, NSW : University of New South Wales Press, 2011.
Description:	x, 575 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Feith, Herbert. Jewish refugees -- Australia -- Biography. Political scientists -- Australia -- Biography. College teachers -- Australia -- Biography. Pacifists -- Australia -- Biography. College teachers. Jewish refugees. Pacifists. Political scientists. Politics and government. Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Australia. Indonesia. Biographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8949045

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Life of Herb Feith
ISBN:	9781742232805 (pbk.) 1742232809 (pbk)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-558) and index.
Summary:	Herb Feith came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from war-torn Europe in 1939 and went on to become an internationally renowned and passionate scholar of Indonesia. He died tragically in Melbourne in 2001.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1.
1. Childhood (1930-45)
2. Youth (1945-51)
Part 2.
3. Going up: Indonesia (1951-53)
4. Engaging Indonesia (1953-56)
Part 3.
5. Cornell years (1957-60)
6. Young scholar at work (1961-65)
7. Indonesia's cataclysm (1965-69)
Part 4.
8. The professorial years (1969-77)
9. Imagining peace (1978-90)
Part 5.
10. Retirement, 'repatterning' and renewal (1991-2001)
Requiem
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index