The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra

by Anthony Reid

In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and ulèëbalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra a wave of violence and killing wiped out the traditional elite in 1945?46. Anthony Reid’s The Blood of the People, now available in a new edition, explores the circumstances of Sumatra’s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9971696371
• ISBN13: 9789971696375
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: NUS Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"