Research Catalog

Title

American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia : US foreign policy and Indonesian nationalism, 1920-1949 / Frances Gouda with Thijs Brocades Zaalberg.

Author

Gouda, Frances, 1950-

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs
• Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs.

Description

382 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"On the basis of research in American, Indonesian, Dutch, and Australian diplomatic records as well as the archives of the United Nations, Gouda and Brocades Zaalberg examine American visions of the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia from the 1920's to 1949, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands relinquished sovereignty over its colonial possession in Southeast Asia to the United States of Indonesia. Their new historical analysis suggests that the American diplomatic establishment was not as ignorant of conditions in the Indonesian archipelago as many Dutch people assumed, both before and after World War II."--Jacket.

Subject

• Nationalism > Indonesia > History > 20th century
• Self-determination, National > Indonesia > History
• Decolonization > Indonesia > History
• Indonesia > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Indonesia
• Indonesia > Politics and government > 1798-1942
• Indonesia > Politics and government > 1942-1949
• United States > Foreign relations > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-312) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

American foreign policy and the end of Dutch colonial rule in southeast Asia: an overview -- "It's 1776 in Indonesia" -- The United States and the Dutch East Indies: the celebration of capitalism in west and east during the 1920's -- American visions of colonial Indonesia from the Great Depression to the growing fear of Japan, 1930-1938 -- The specter of Japan and America's recognition of the Indonesian archipelago's strategic importance, 1938-1945 -- The politics of independence in the Republik Indonesia and international reactions, 1945-1949 -- The emerging Cold War and American perspectives on decolonization in southeast Asia in the postwar era -- Indonesia's struggle for independence and the outside world: England, Australia, and the United States in search of a peaceful solution -- Armed conflict, the United Nations' Good Offices Committee, and the Renville Agreement: America's involvement in trying to reach a settlement -- Soviet strategies in southeast Asia and Indonesian politics: US foreign policy adrift during the course of 1948 -- Rescuing the Republic's moderates from Soviet communism: Washington's conversion to unequivocal support of Indonesia's independence.

ISBN

9053564799

OCLC

49589237

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library