История Восточного Тимора

Praeger Security International, 2008. — 221 p. — ISBN: 973-0-313-34841-9. Based on first-person accounts, interviews, declassified documents, and secondary background sources, this book gives readers insight into the significant actions and innovative techniques of the struggle for East Timorese independence from 1999 to 2006. The book begins with a two-chapter historical...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — xxiii + 153 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-62629-1. This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future. It tries to understand a complex political system in which both traditional laws and contemporary politics are integrated, and examines the effects of...

Second Edition, Revised and Updated. — Zed Books, 2009. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84813-012-8. This book tells the story of the traumatic creation of Asia's youngest country, East Timor, which has been struggling to rebuild itself ever since the mayhem of Indonesia's reluctant withdrawal in 1999. The author, one of a mere handful of journalists who refused to be evacuated in the...

Afrontamento, 2016. — 568 p. — ISBN: 978-972-36-1469-5. Quinhentos anos depois da chegada dos portugueses à ilha do "oloroso sândalo", Timor-Leste é hoje uma nação independente. A autodeterminação do que foi o Timor Português pode ter começado com a Revolução dos Cravos em Lisboa, mas o processo em que se inseriu tem raízes mais longínquas no próprio sistema colonial, e...

Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 298 p. East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, located at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. East Timor was among the last of colonial territories to become independent, and it actually had to be liberated twice. First, after more than four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule, it achieved...

Leiden: Kitlv Press, 2012. — 479 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 273). — ISBN 978-90-6718-378-9. The aim of this book is to fill a historiographical void by studying how local people on Timor fought, traded, negotiated and mixed with foreigners during two eventful centuries, from 1600 to 1800. The subject is not entirely new,...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-37370-3. This book traces the themes within the East Timor independence movement and notes how these have contibuted to post-independence issues, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as a viable state in 2006. It concludes with an assessment of the 2007 elections. Conceptual Considerations....

Sussex Academic Press, 2018. — 239 p. Drawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centered history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence-as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics-within the social and cultural "everyday" of life in occupied East Timor. The violence experienced by East Timorese women ranged...

McFarland, 2003. — 230 p. Following the end of the Salazar dictatorship and the establishment of democracy in Portugal in 1975, East Timor declared its independence from Portugal, but a failure to transfer power in an orderly manner lead to a terrible civil war and military intervention by Indonesia. The United Nations condemned Indonesia's occupation of East Timor and called...

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2001. — 171 p. — (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series). — ISBN: 1-58826-033-X. This unique inside account traces events in East Timor from the negotiations that led to the May 1999 agreements among Indonesia, Portugal, and the United Nations to the mandating of international intervention to check the violence that wracked the...

Routledge, 2019. — 370 p. Reflecting on the legacies of Timor-Leste's remarkable journey from colonialism to sovereign and democratic Independence, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of life in Timor-Leste. Following an introduction and overview of the country, the Handbook is divided into...

Routledge, 2009. — 216 p. — (Politics in Asia). — ISBN: 0-415-47807-3. This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families, and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses the...

Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005. — 261 p. — ISBN: 1-74076-131-6. In 1999, East Timor erupted into violence following the popular vote for independence. The world watched in horror as reports of fighting, looting, arson, rape and murder were broadcast across the world. A United Nations force, led by Australians, was deployed to East Timor to establish and maintain peace....

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. — 291 p. — (Asian voices). — ISBN: 0-7425-0967-2. East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and...

Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2012. — 252 p. — (Monash Asia Series). — ISBN: 978-1-876924-80-5. "One Indonesian soldier was particularly nice to me. He gave me pretty clothes and sweets and used to take me for walks and to his office. Then one Sunday, it was just after my first communion, I was coming out of church with other children when soldiers took me and put me...

Отв. ред. Д. В. Мосяков; Институт востоковедения РАН. — М.: ИВ РАН, 2015. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-640-2. В монографии рассматриваются основные этапы истории Восточного Тимора (Тимор-Лешти). Освещаютя важнейшие события этой истории, начиная с первых письменных свидетельств об острове Тимор и разделе его между Португалией и Нидерландами, говорится о значении территории в...