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Acknowledgements I must also acknowledge here the following publishers and institutions for permission to reprint updated versions of the chapters in question: Chapter 1 Palgrave Macmillan for permission to reprint “Indonesia — Revolution without Socialism”, in Asia — The Winning of independence, ed. Robin Jeffrey (1981). Chapter 2 The University of Wisconsin Press for permission to reprint “The Decline of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Indonesia”, in Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia, ed. Martin Klein (1993). Chapter 3 The Association for Asian Studies for permission to reprint “From Betel Chewing to Tobacco Smoking in Indonesia”, Journal of Asian Studies 44, iii (1985). Chapter 4 The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for permission to reprint “Chains of Steel; Chains of Silver: Forcing Politics on Geography, 1865–1965”, in Historical Foundations of a National Economy in Indonesia , 1890s–1990s, ed. Thomas Lindblad (1996). Chapter 5 Cambridge University Press for permission to reprint “Merdeka: The Concept of Freedom in Indonesia”, in Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia, eds. David Kelly and Anthony Reid (1998). x Chapters 6 and 10 The Asian Studies Association of Australia for permission to reprint “The Nationalist Quest for an Indonesian Past”, in Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia, eds. Anthony Reid and David Marr (Heinemann Asia, 1979); and “Political ‘Tradition’ in Indonesia: The One and the Many”, Asian Studies Review 22, 1 (February 1998). Chapter 6 (latter part) The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, for permission to reprint “Writing the History of Independent Indonesia”, in Nation-Building: Five Southeast Asian Histories, ed. Wang Gungwu (2005). Chapter 7 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Yale University for permission to reprint “Indonesia: From Briefcase to Samurai Sword”, in Southeast Asia under Japanese Occupation, ed. A.W. McCoy (1979). Chapter 8 Utrecht University, for permission to reprint “The Revolution in Regional Perspective”, in The Indonesian Revolution, ed. J. van Goor (Utrechtse Historische Cahiers, 1986). Chapter 9 The University of Malaya Historical Society, which published a useful Journal in the heady 1960s, of which this paper appeared in Vol. VI (1968). Chapter 11 Edward Elgar for permission to reprint “Indonesia’s Post-Revolutionary Aversion to Federalism”, in Federalism in Asia, eds. Baogang He, Brian Galligan and Takashi Inoguchi (2007). Chapter 12 The University of Washington Press for permission to reprint “Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism and the State”, in Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, eds. Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (1997). Acknowledgements xi ...

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