Herbert Feith
Australian academic
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Political Science
Herbert Feith's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of Amsterdam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert Feith was an Australian academic and world leading scholar of Indonesian politics. Background Born in Vienna, Austria in 1930, Feith witnessed oppression of the Jews and witnessed Kristallnacht in 1938 at the age of 7. He came to Australia as a refugee in 1939 with his Austrian Jewish parents, one of a few thousand Jews granted humanitarian visas. He took an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Melbourne, working with Professor William Macmahon Ball. After graduating, fascinated with Asia and inspired by Molly Bondan, he got a job in Jakarta in at the Indonesian Department of Information and worked from 1951 to 1952 as an Indonesian civil servant on a local salary. This gave him contacts and language fluency. His Masters at Melbourne was completed in 1954.
Herbert Feith's Published Works
Published Works
- The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia (1962) (425)
- Indonesian political thinking, 1945-1965 (1970) (98)
- The Indonesian elections of 1955 (1957) (67)
- The End of the Indonesian Rebellion (1963) (38)
- President Soekarno, the Army and the Communists: The Triangle Changes Shape (1964) (32)
- The last days of President Suharto (1999) (31)
- Indonesia's Political Symbols and Their Wielders (1963) (22)
- 1. Repressive-Developmentalist Regimes in Asia* (1982) (21)
- The West Papuan Challenge to Indonesian Authority in Irian Jaya: Old Problems, New Possiblities (1986) (19)
- History, Theory, and Indonesian Politics: A Reply to Harry J. Benda (1965) (12)
- The Wilopo Cabinet, 1952-1953: A Turning Point in Post-Revolutionary Indonesia (1962) (11)
- Suharto's Search for a Political Format (1968) (10)
- Ethnicity, Party and National Integration. (1972) (9)
- Toward Elections in Indonesia (1954) (4)
- Growth and Development in Asia: Some Criticisms of Conventional Approaches (1974) (3)
- Indonesia: A Profile (1962) (3)
- Indonesian Political Thinking, 1945-1965.@@@Southeast Asia. A Critical Bibliography. (1970) (2)
- Henry in the eyes of fellow students (1985) (2)
- In Memoriam: Herbert Feith (1930-2001) (2002) (1)
- Sukarno and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence. Sukarnos Kampf um Indonesiens Unabhangigkeit (1970) (1)
- Self-determination in the 1990s: Equipping the UN to Resolve Ethno-Nationalist Conflicts (1995) (1)
- Cultural Freedom in Asia: The Proceedings of a Conference Held at Rangoon, Burma, February 17-20, 1955. (1957) (0)
- "Indonesian Political Thinking": A Review@@@Indonesian Political Thinking: 1945-1965 (1971) (0)
- The 1955 Elections (2009) (0)
- Rex Mortimer's Stubborn Survivors: Dissenting Essays on Peasants and Third World Development: A Review@@@Indonesian Communism under Sukarno: Ideology and Politics, 1959-1965 (1985) (0)
- Indonesian politics, 1949-1957 : the decline of representative government (1961) (0)
- Conflict in East Timor (1992) (0)
- Indonesian Communism: A History.@@@The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia. (1964) (0)
- From “Ethicjsm” to “Dualism” Robert Van Niel, The Emergence of the Modem Indonesian Elite, Quadrangle Books Inc., Chicago, W. van Hoeve Ltd., The Hague and Bandung, 1960, pp. vii, 314. (1962) (0)
- In Memoriam: David Penny (1930 -- 1983) (1984) (0)
- The Kurds and Self-Determination (2008) (0)
- Rice Roots: An American in Asia. (1959) (0)
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