Radicals Without Borders

From: In These Times | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Weiss, Meredith L | Copyright information

Radicals Without Borders

When the New York Times Magazine, for an end-of-the-millennium special issue, asked the oft-persecuted Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer to choose the best story of the last 1,000 years, he offered a somewhat ironic selection: the 1860 work of Dutchman Eduard Douwes Dekker, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. As Pramoedya explained, this now largely-forgotten book touches on two key "processes" of the past millennium: the ...

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