Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
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Wed April 10, 2019, 5:30–7 pm
Thompson Hall 101 (UW Campus)
Downtown Seattle (Seattle)
Free
Rather than classifying the various revolutions of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam as distinctly national or local, some historians have suggested alternative ways of looking at Southeast Asian political movements throughout history. In his book Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitanism and Revolution in Southeast Asia, John Sidel—a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science— suggests that these revolutions were informed by "cosmopolitan connections" in very different ways.