Ann Laura Stoler is Professor of Anthropology and History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, and the author of Race and the Education of Desire: A Colonial Reading of Foucault's The History of Sexuality. She is the recipient of the 1992 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies from the Association of Asian Studies.
From written historical records, as well as from very broad and
intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an
eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . .
What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained
throughout the study, between description, analysis and
interpretation." —Pacific Affairs
"Stoler has produced a stunning and seminal study. . . . This is a
superb piece of interdisciplinary research. . . ." —World
Development
". . . intellectually provocative and significant." —Journal of
Asian Studies
". . . an interesting and valuable book . . . " —Times Literary
Supplement
". . . a reissue of a fine field study together with a smaller . .
. fascinating preface which explores the context of the production
of academic scholarship." —Pacific Affairs
"From written historical records, as well as from very broad and
intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an
eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . .
What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained
throughout the study, between description, analysis and
interpretation." —Pacific Affairs
"A well-crafted and expertly researched history . . . exhibits a
brand of intellectual integrity that is rare in a work so critical
and this makes it a major contribution to the literature of the
impact of imperialism and capitalism on the traditional populations
of the Third World." —Peasant Studies
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