Engineers of Happy Land Technology and Nationalism in a Colony

Name: Engineers of Happy Land Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
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ISBN: 9780691091624

ISBN-10: 0691091625

ISBN-13: 9780691091624

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rudolf ï¿½zek

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Based on close reading of historical documents - poetry as much as statistics - this book attempts to give an inspiring image of the past.

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface



Language as Asphalt


Bare Feet


Hard and Clean Roads


Struggle for the Roads


Language-game


Bahasa Indonesia, "Indonesian Language"



Towers


Homes on Wheels and Floating Homes


The Cities


The Camps


The Towers



From Darkness to Light


The City of Light


Dactyloscopy


The Floodlight


The Sublime


The Mirror



Indonesian Dandy


The Dolls


The Modern Times


Nationalism and the Birth of the Dandy


The Death of the Dandy


The Parade



Let Us Become Radio Mechanics


The Metaphor


The Thing


The Voice


The Closed Circuits


The Mechanics



Only the Deaf Can Hear Well


Sjahrir Recalled


Memories of Holland


Time in Three Dimensions


Bacteria


The Splendid Radio


The Mouth of Karundeng


Sportsmen-Dandies-Jokers-Engineers


Ear Culture


The Happy End


Notes


Sources


Index