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The study connects themes such as language, infrastructure, and urban planning with practices of engineering, documentation, and communication systems. Through detailed attention to roads, urban spaces, towers, camps, biometrics like dactyloscopy, and radio culture, the book traces how technical modernity shaped social order, cultural styles, and nationalist imagination across the twentieth century.","EDGINEERS □FHRPPY LA门D  \n# echnology and Natonatsmin a Colony\n\nRLOOLF mPR2EH  \n## ENGINEERS OF HAPPY LAND\n\n## EDIT ORS\n\nSherry B.Ortner,Nicholas B.Dirks,Geoff Eley  \nA LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIESAPPEARS AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK  \nENGINEERSOF  \n## HAPPY LAND\n\nTECHNOLOGY AND NATIONALISMIN A COLONY  \nRudolf Mrázek  \n(A1 ER  \nDS b43 M13 2002  \nCOPYRIGHT ◎2002 BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSPUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS,41 WILLIAM STREET,PRINCETON,NEW JERSEY08540  \nIN THE UNITED KINGDOM:PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS,3 MARKET PLACEWOODSTOCK,OXFORDSHIRE OX201SYALL RIGHTS RESERVED  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA  \nMRAZEK,RUDOLF.  \nENGINEERS OF HAPPY LAND:TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONALISM INA COLONY/RUDOLF MRAZEK.  \nP.CM.—(PRINCETON STUDIES IN CULTURE/POWER/HISTORY)INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AND INDEX.ISBN 0-691-09161-7(ALK.PAPER)---ISBN0-691-09162-5(PBK.:ALK.PAPER)  \n1.INDONESIA—CIVILIZATION—20TH CENTURY.2.TECHNOLOGY—SOCIALASPECTS—INDONESIA.3.NATIONALISM AND TECHNOLOGYINDONESIA.4.NATIONALISM—INDONESIA—HISTORY—20THCENTURY.I.TITLE.II.SERIES.  \nDS643.M732002959.803-DC21   2001036860  \nBRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA IS AVAILABLETHIS BOOK HAS BEEN COMPOSED IN ACASLONPRINTED ON ACID-FREE PAPER.∞wWW.PUPRESS.PRINCETON.EDUPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \n13579108642  \nFor Jana  \nCONTENTS  \nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSxi  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTSxiii  \nPREFACE  \nXV  \nONELanguage as Asphalt  \n1  \nBare Feet  \n1  \nHard and Clean Roads  \n4  \nStruggle for the Roads8  \nBahasa Indonesia,\"Indonesian Language\"  \n31  \nTWO  \nTowers  \n43  \nHomes on Wheels and Floating Homes  \n43  \nThe Cities  \n52  \nThe Camps  \n60  \nThe Towers  \n73  \n## viii 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