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Reid, Anthony John Stanhope was born on June 19, 1939 in Wellington, New Zealand. Son of John Stanhope and Doris Aileen (Priestley) Reid. arrived in Australia, 1970.
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In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world. Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing on Islamization; Chinese, Siamese, Cham, and Javanese trade; Makasar’s modernizing moment; and slavery. The last three chapters examine from different perspectives how this interaction of relative equality shifted to one of an impoverished “third world” region exposed to European colonial power. at UCLA.
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In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra a wave of violence and killing wiped out the traditional elite in 1945-46. Anthony Reid's 'The Blood of the People', now available in a new edition, explores the circumstances of Sumatra's sharp break with the past during what has been labelled its "social revolution". The events in northern Sumatra were among the most dramatic episodes of Indonesia's national revolution, and brought about more profound changes even than in Java, from where the revolution is normally viewed. Some ethnic groups saw the revolution as a popular, peasant-supported movement that liberated then from foreign rule. Others, though, felt victimised by a radical, levelling agenda imposed by outsiders. Java, with a relatively homogeneous population, passed through the revolution without significant social change. The ethnic complexity of Sumatra, in contrast, meant that the revolution demanded an altogether new "Indonesian" identity to override the competing ethnic categories of the past.
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The Indonesian revolution demands attention as a revolution, and as an important chapter in the collapse of Western colonialism. In the first place, however, it is the watershed of modern Indonesian history, and must be understood in terms of that history.
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Reid, Anthony John Stanhope was born on June 19, 1939 in Wellington, New Zealand. Son of John Stanhope and Doris Aileen (Priestley) Reid. arrived in Australia, 1970.
Bachelor, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, 1960. Master of Arts with honors, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 1965.
Lecturer University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1965-1970. Fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1970-1974, senior fellow, 1974-1988, professor Southeast Asian history, 1988-1999. Professor history and director Center for Southeast Asian Studies University of California at Los Angeles, 1999—2003.
Director Asia Research Institute National University Singapore, since 2002. Visiting associate professor Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1973-1974. Senior specialist Social Science Research Training Center, Ujung Pundang, Indonesia, 1980-1987.
( The Indonesian revolution demands attention as a revolu...)
( The Indonesian revolution demands attention as a revolu...)
(In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced...)
(In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on t...)
Fellow Australian Academy Humanities (international secretary 1990-1992). Member Asian Studies Association Australia (founding convenor 1975-1976, president 1996-1998).
Married Helen Margaret Gray, August 31, 1963. Children: Katharine Mary, Daniel James.