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E-book Revolutionary Worlds : Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949

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cursory glance at Dutch historiography as it stands today proves this point. Most recently, scholars have homed in on the particularly violent nature of decolonization and its so-called ‘extreme’ properties. On the one hand, this has been occasioned by the demands put forth by survivors and their relatives that former colonial empires recognize and offer reparations for the horrible abuses committed.2 On the other, this ‘violent turn’ was the logical endpoint of a question everyone knew the answer to but whose answer was difficult to put on paper, partially due to the staying power of veterans’ narratives. This question was, quite simply: How pervasive and systematic was Dutch violence during the Indonesian War of Independence in particu-lar and during centuries of the Dutch colonial occupation of Indonesia in general? The persistence of survivors and their relatives dovetailed with his-torians and cultural institutions who, in varying degrees, were finally ready to address their nation’s sordid past – or at least bring it out into the open.3The larger historical project (funded by the Dutch government) of which this book is a part is entitled Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia 1945-1950. It focused on precisely the problem of Dutch mili-tary violence during the last major colonial war the nation conducted – in Indonesia. In a series of substantial volumes totalling thousands of pages, it concluded that Dutch violence in that war had been both extreme systematic and structural. The Dutch cabinet immediately offered a ‘deep apolog y to the people of Indonesia today (reinforcing earlier apologies including one by the king in 2020)’.4 Unfortunately, although this ‘violent turn’ in Dutch colonial studies has finally led to the Netherlands owning up to the violence, it has again resulted in a neglect of the experiences of those who stood at the receiving end of colonial violence who sought to escape or combat it on their own terms. The present volume is one of a small number within that larger project to seek engagement with Indonesian historians. How the resulting dialogue progressed – haltingly at first, but in the end in an inspiring man-ner – is discussed at some length below. Here, we would simply note that the participating Dutch and Indonesian historians came to the project with their own background of a dominant national interpretive tradition.

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Judul Seri

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959.803 AHM r

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

538 hlm

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English

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9789048556861

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959.803

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computer

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online resource

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Period of Republic

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