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A Voyage to the East Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

A Voyage to the East Indies

Published in English translation in 1800, this valuable account presents a noted orientalist's observations on Indian geography, language and culture.

East Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

East Indies

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Collective Memory and Dutch East Indiehb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Collective Memory and Dutch East Indiehb

This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoires and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.

Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-01-01
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  • Publisher: NUS Press

This book considers the background to the treatises, their content and significance, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian polities or Portuguese institutions of trade and diplomacy when he wrote them. --

The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941–42
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941–42

At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in the war. This highly illustrated study is one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War. Imperial Japan's campaigns of conquest in late 1941/early 1942 were launched in order to achieve self-sufficiency for the Japanese people, chiefly in the precious commodity of oil. The Netherlands (or Dutch) East Indies formed one of Japan's primary targets, on account of its abundant rubber plantations and oilfields. The Japanese despatched an e...

A New History of the East-Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

A New History of the East-Indies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1754
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross (NIRK) took action in 1873 when the Aceh War broke out, which lasted several decades. In this war the organization’s neutrality was tested, but it turned out not to be an issue. Neutrality was a concept for European wars between “civilized” countries, not applicable in colonial wars. As a consequence, aid was tailored to the needs of the Dutch East Indian Army. This also showed itself in a statutory change making aid not only possible during “war”’ but also in case of “uprising.” After the war ended several decades of “peace”—if peace is a proper term in colonial circumstances—followed. They were used to be prepared in case of an attack...

Nurturing Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Nurturing Indonesia

This examination of the formation of the Indonesian medical profession reveals the relationship between medicine and decolonisation, and its importance to understanding Asian history.

American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia

A revealing reassessment of the American government's position towards Indonesia's struggle for independence.