This book discusses the development and use of community as an instrument of government. It argues that the small local communities embracing most of Java's population are basically political constructions and elements of a modern capitalist order. Sullivan proposes that the practice demonstrates that it is more efficient to govern communal collectives than a smaller family or other household units, making it possible to control vast populations with little administrative overhead.
- ISBN10 0195885597
- ISBN13 9780195885590
- Publish Date 27 August 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 August 2000
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 260
- Language English