...Eric Tagliacozzo Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony . By Rudolf Mrázek . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2002 . xvii, 311 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1332 THE JOURNAL...

...Colin Brown Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia . By Rudolf Mrazek . Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1994 . x, 526 pp. $24.25 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES discounting...

... Indonesia; and the author's own memories of Czechoslovakia. Mrázek's finely textured oral history, with its topographically organized chapters (“Bypasses and Flyovers,” “The Walls,” “The Fences,” “The Classroom,” “The Window”), resembles in feeling, if not precisely in structure, Benjamin's Arcades Project...

.... Mrazek clearly dispels this simplistic notion: Sjahrir was much more complicated than that. But what was his long-term impact on the Indonesian political scene? In his introduction to the book, Mrazek notes that several readers of earlier versions drew the conclusion that Sjahrir was a man who had failed...

... Hidayatullah State Islamic University Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony. By RUDOLF MRAZEK. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvii, 311 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Rudolf Mrazek's Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony is a wonderfully...

...Harold Crouch The United States and the Indonesian Military . By Rudolf Mrázek . Prague : Oriental Institute in Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , (Dissertationes Orientales No. 39), 1978 . 2 Vols. 235 pp., 285 pp. Bibliography. N.p.l. Copyright ©...

...Kathleen M. Nadeau Magosaha: An Ethnography of the Tawi-Tawi Sama Dilaut . By H. Arlo Nimmo . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 2001 . 272 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1333 Mrazek...

..., in 1996. For all this, though, Mrazek's is the first full biography of Sjahrir to appear. Working with a massive array of sources colonial archives, nationalist and postwar newspapers, reminiscences of colleagues, interviews with those who knew him, and Sjahrir's own writings Mrazek has produced...

... by Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . 313 pp. $58.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Every year or so, it seems, at least since I started graduate study in Southeast Asian art in the late 1980s...

...Rudolf Mrázek Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java . By Karen Strassler . Durham, NC and London : Duke University Press , 2010 . 408 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Rudolf Mrázek Abstract It is impressive how, in Prasenjit Duara's essay, Asian regions are understood and presented—in the breadth of the world, not as objects with sharp edges, or compact entities of cultures, economies, and politics, not as blocks of which the present and the global so often...

...Rudolf Mrázek Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949 . By Robert Cribb . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1991 . xiii, 222 pp. $32.00 cloth. 978...

...Rudolf Mrázek Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Tan Malaka: Strijder voor Indonesië's Vrijheid, Levensloop van 1897 tot 1945 . By Harry A. Poeze . 's-Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en...

...Rudolf Mrázek 1316 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Equally distracting are inaccuracies that range from the factual (Vickberg instead of Wickberg; transmuting Kerkvliet into a historian) to the interpretive describing Quezon and Osmena as "genuinely committed to independence" (p. 30) when they were...

..., Appendixes, Index. $33.50. 676 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES view, was in fact a strong supporter of the confrontation campaign and one of the few senior officers to take action against corrupt colleagues, while Generals Yani and Suharto, the representatives of the mobile striking units in Mrazek's analysis...

... are deeply shaped by an unfolding political history, and Taylor links colonial antecedents to the postcolonial impulse to garb men with power and Western-style suits and women with "traditional" costume and political subordination. Rudolf Mrazek, too, discusses the politics of clothes, but by way of a look...

... earlier Adat Laws in Modern Malaya (1972). CHANDRA JAYAWARDENA Macquarie University The United States and the Indonesian Military. By RUDOLF MRAZEK. Prague: Oriental Institute in Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Dissertationes Orientales No. 39), 1978. 2 Vols. 235 pp...

...James Eder BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 219 topic by the Czech historian Rudolf Mrazek was, from the evidence of a single citation, known to the authors. BENEDICT R. O'G. ANDERSON Cornell University An Introduction to Human Ecology Research on Agricultural Systems in Southeast Asia. Edited...

... for the emergent regional network. “Asia as method,” however, should not be confused with the more substantive goal of achieving regional sustainability by the critique of rampant capitalism and unyielding nationalism. Finally, let me briefly respond to Rudolf Mrázek's flamboyant and somewhat oblique critique...

... the circumstances of Indonesian nationalists in exile. Rudolf Mrazek writes of the experiences of Sutan Sjahrir who, together with Hatta, was sent in 1935 to the infamous internment camp at Boven Digul in West New Guinea. Mary Somers Heidues examines conditions on the island of Bangka where Hatta and three others...