Revolusi Indonesia and the birth of the modern world
On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York:
W.W. Norton & Company
2024
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| Edición: | First American edition 2024 |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The VOC mentality: why Indonesia wrote world history
- Assembling the jigsaw puzzle: Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia, 1605-1914
- The colonial steamship: social structure in a changing world, 1914-1942
- 'Flies spoiling the chemist's ointment': anti-colonial movements, 1914-1933
- Silence: the final years of the colonial regime, 1934-1941
- The pincer and the oil fields: the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, December 1941-March 1942
- The land of the rising pressure: the first year of the occupation, March 1942-December 1942
- 'Colonialism is colonialism': mobilisation, famine and growing resistance, January 1943-late 1944
- 'Our blood is forever warm': the tumultuous road to the Proklamasi, March 1944-August 1945
- 'Free! Of! Everything!': republican violence and the British nightmare, August 1945-December 1945
- 'An errand of mercy': the British year, January-November 1946
- The trap: the Dutch year, November 1946-July 1947
- 'Unacceptable, unpalatable and unfair': the American year, August 1947-December 1948
- 'A big hole that smells of earth': the UN year, December 1948-December 1949
- Into the light of morning: the Indonesian revolution and the world after 1950
