Verandah of violence : the background to the Aceh problem / edited by Anthony Reid.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-379) and index.

Introduction / Anthony Reid -- Indian and Indonesian elements in early North Sumatra / E. Edwards McKinnon -- Aceh in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: "Serambi Mekkah" and identity / Peter G. Riddell -- The pre-modern sultanate's view of its place in the world / Anthony Reid -- Aceh at the time of the 1824 treaty / Lee Kam Hing -- Colonial transformation: a bitter legacy / Anthony Reid -- Aceh and the holy war (Prang Sabil) / Teuku Ibrahim Alfian -- From autonomy to periphery: a critical evaluation of the Acehnese nationalist movement / M. Isa Sulaiman -- Violence and identity formation on Aceh under Indonesian rule / Edward Aspinall -- Sentiments made visible: the rise and reason of Aceh's national liberation movement / William Nessen -- Military business in Aceh / Damien Kingsbury and Lesley McCulloch -- Insurgency and counter-insurgency: strategy and the Aceh conflict, October 1976-May 2004 / Kirsten E. Schulze -- Democratisation, the Indonesian armed forces and the resolving of the Aceh conflict / Aleksius Jemadu -- What's special about special autonomy in Aceh? / Michelle Ann Miller -- Local leadership and the Aceh conflict / Rodd McGibbon.