Product Description: The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers...read more

Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country's origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth-century, and the subsequent anti-colonial revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, followed by the Sukarno years, and the anti-Communist massacres of the 1960s when General Suharto took over as president. The concluding chapters chart the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent political and religious turmoil which culminated in the Bali bombings in 2002. Adrian Vickers is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong. He has previously worked at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney, and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Indonesia and Udayana University (Bali). Vickers has more than twenty-five years research experience in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and has travelled in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Europe in the course of his research. He is author of the acclaimed Bali: a Paradise Created (Penguin, 1989) as well as many other scholarly and popular works on Indonesia. In 2003 Adrian Vickers curated the exhibition Crossing Boundaries, a major survey of modern Indonesian art, and has also been involved in documentary films, including Done Bali (Negara Film and Television Productions, 1993).

Product Description: Over its recent history, Bali has experienced many traumatic encounters with the West. Spanning Balinese history, Bali Chronicles sketches the economics, culture and politics of the island and how those were affected by the country's interactions with the West.

Product Description: Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.First published in 1937, Island of Bali is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its fascinating people...read more

Product Description: From the late seventeenth century until the Dutch conquest of the early twentieth Century Bali was ruled by a set of competing kingdoms. This study of the Balinese text Kidung Malat is the first work in Indonesian historical studies to analyse the main ideology of these Balinese kingdoms...read more

Looks at the history of Bali, highlighting its rulers, people, and encounters with Western civilization.

Product Description: A collection of eight essays organized around the theme of perceptions of modernity and tradition in Bali ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day. They demonstrate the ongoing role of debates about modernity and tradition in Southeast Asia, particularly the way these debates relate to issues of national and ethnic identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of writings about the Indonesian island of Bali is a presentation of the various facets of travel and the myriad persepctives on the island. The anthology covers four hundred years of journeys, including reports of the 1957 Dutch 'first fleet', Francois Valentijn's baroque account of slavery and sodomy, the effusive outpourings of 1920s travelllers to 'paradise', and the reflections of Balinese writers on what was happening to their island in the 1970s and 1980s...read more