The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49
Author: Marc Lohnstein
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2023-06-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1472854748
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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Author: Jan A. Krancher
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0786481064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch rule. Over the next three years, more than 100,000 Dutch citizens were shipped to Japanese internment camps and more than four million romushas, forced Indonesian laborers, were enlisted in the Japanese war effort. The Japanese occupation stimulated the development of Indonesian independence movements. Headed by Sukarno, a longtime admirer of Japan, nationalist forces declared their independence on August 17, 1945. For Dutch citizens, Dutch-Indonesians or "Indos," and pro-Dutch Indonesians, Sukarno's declaration marked the beginning of a new wave of terror. These powerful and often poignant stories from survivors of the Japanese occupation and subsequent turmoil surrounding Indonesian independence provide one with a vivid portrait of the hardships faced during the period.
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42
Author: Marc Lohnstein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1472833740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major exporter to Japan, providing some 13 per cent of its oil needs – second only after the United States. Following Germany's occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Japan decided to expand its influence in the Netherlands East Indies. Defending the colony was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL). This force, designed primarily for colonial policing, underwent a series of cutbacks in the interwar years before adopting a modernisation programme in 1936, which focused on building up a strike air force, introducing tanks and increasing the firepower of the infantry and artillery. Fully illustrated with period photographs and full-colour artwork, this book examines the dress, insignia, equipment, organization and combat performance of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army as it faced the all-conquering Japanese forces in World War II.
The British Occupation of Indonesia: 1945-1946
Author: Richard Mcmillan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-17
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134254288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original and critical scholarship with a high standard of writing: crisp and measured Relevant to a wide range of undergraduate courses in history This book revises history and presents new ideas: on the British official interpretation of post-war events in Southeast Asia; the condemnation of British policy by many Dutch scholars; and the ideas popularly held in Indonesia and by those sympathetic to the nationalist cause that Britain was playing a Dutch game
The Indonesian Question
Author: Jacob Teunis Harskamp
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This catalogue and guide is based on a British Library collection of printed material, documents (often marked secret or confidential) and personal papers. It covers the political and military development of the conflict in Indonesia in 1945-1950 and its deep psychological impact, and also deals with the devastating impact the Japanese occupation had on the population.
Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence
Author: Bart Luttikhuis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1317663152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination. In the main, the dramas in French Algeria and British Kenya in the 1950s have dominated the scene, overshadowing the equally violent events that unfolded in the Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese empires. Colonial counterinsurgency and mass violence is the first book in English to treat the intense conflict that occurred during the ‘Indonesian revolution’—the decolonization struggle of the Dutch East Indies between 1945 and 1949. This case is particularly significant as the first episode of post-war colonial violence, indeed one with global reverberations. International opinion was ranged against the Dutch, and the nascent United Nations condemned its euphemistically termed ‘police actions’ to reclaim the archipelago from Indonesian nationalists after defeat by the Japanese in 1942. As this book makes clear, however, intra-Indonesian violence was no less prevalent, as rival independence visions vied for control and villagers were caught between the fronts. Taking a multi-perspectival approach, eighteen authors examine the origins of the conflict as well as its representational and memory dimensions. Colonial counterinsurgency and mass violence will appeal to scholars of imperial history, mass violence and memory studies alike. This book is based on a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia
Author: Frances Gouda
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789053564790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revealing reassessment of the American government's position towards Indonesia's struggle for independence.
Colonialism and Cold War
Author: Robert J. McMahon
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →McMahon looks closely at one area where American diplomacy played an important role in the end of the European imperial order--Indonesia--placing America's later policy in Indochina, in historical context.
The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49
Author: Marc Lohnstein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-06-22
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 147285473X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945. Following on from MAA 521 Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42 and completing the coverage of the post-World War II wars of decolonization, The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49 describes the Japanese surrender in September 1945 which left a power vacuum in the colonial Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Using vivid colour illustrations and rare photos, this title depicts the various forces involved in the struggle for Indonesia: the British Indian Army troops sent to key areas to disarm Japanese garrisons, the Indonesian nationalists who immediately proclaimed an independent Republic, remaining Japanese troops, and the Dutch forces which arrived in 1946. The wide dispersion of populations, and their ethnic, religious and political differences ensured that the struggle which followed was complex. Fragmented bands of nationalist permuda insurgents were slowly brought together under command of a republican army (the BKR, later TKR, and finally the TNI, complete with naval and air elements), but stubborn negotiations alternated with bouts of major fighting. This book details how the nationalists were defeated by Dutch and Dutch-led local forces in urban areas (e.g. during Operations Product and Crow, 1947 and 1948), but how their guerrillas evaded Dutch troops in the jungle hills and swamps. Illustrating a wide range of uniforms, insignia, personal weapons and equipment, this study showcases the troops and armour involved in the conflict.
The Soviet View of the Indonesian Revolution
Author: Ruth T. McVey
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 6028397075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although in recent years there have been an increasing number of studies of the Indonesian Communist Party and of the Indonesian revolution (1945-49), there has been relatively little attention paid specifically to the role of the party in the revolutionary period and its relationship during that period with the Soviet Union. Furthermore, virtually no studies have been made of the perceptions of the Soviet Union of the character of the Indonesian revolution and the level of sophistication and understanding which its Indonesian specialists brought to the study of Indonesian affairs of this period. We believe that with this Interim Report Ruth McVey has made an important beginning in overcoming our ignorance of this most important subject. Her study makes a significant contribution both to our understanding of Indonesian Communism and of Soviet relations with Asian Communist parties in the critical period after World War II. From 1954 to 1956, Miss McVey undertook intensive research on Soviet materials available in the United States and Western Europe and on Dutch Communist and Indonesian Communist publications available in the Netherlands and at Cornell. This study, first published in 1957, is based on her analysis of these documents and covers the period 1945-1950. About the Author Ruth McVey received her M.A. in 1954 from the Harvard Soviet Area Program. Subsequently under the auspices of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project she carried on research for fifteen months in the Netherlands and England, and it was following this that she wrote this Interim Report. After further graduate work at Cornell, McVey was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship for additional research in the Netherlands and Indonesia. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1961.
