Beyond Borders : Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945 To 1950.
This book rediscovers an intense internationalism-and charts its loss-in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945-49 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grass-roots...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Asian History Ser.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book rediscovers an intense internationalism-and charts its loss-in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945-49 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grass-roots levels in India and Australia. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was eventually buried behind the hardening borders of emerging nations and hostile Cold War blocs. |
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| Item Description: | 5.1 Clarrie Campbell, Ada Boys, and Phyllis Johnson with unidentified Papuan seaman on picnic, c. 1944 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (385 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789048531103 9048531101 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
