1st Edition
Beyond Borders Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950
By Heather Goodall
Copyright 2019
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 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 to 1949 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grassroots levels in India... Read more
Preface, Glossary, Abbreviations, Part I: Seeing the Region, 1. Everybody's Revolution, 2. Connections and Mobility, Part II: An Asian War, 3. Dangerous Oceans: Merchant Seamen and War, 4. Home and Away: Invaded, Under Arms or Exiled, 5. Sharing the Home Front: Wartime Australia as Transnational Space, Part III: The Boycott of Dutch Shipping, 6. Boycotting Colonialism: Supporting Indonesian Independence in Australia, 7. Seeing the Boycott in the Australian Press, 8. Indian Perspectives: The Boycott as Anti-Colonialism, Part IV: Fighting Two Empires, 9. 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican city, 10. Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Surabaya in Australia, 11. The Acid Test: Seeing Surabaya in India, Part V: Aftermath, 12. Breaking the Boycott, 13. Trading for Freedom, 14. Transnational Visions, Part VI: Reflections, 15. Remembering Heroes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Professor Heather Goodall, UTS, is an award-winning historian of Australian Indigenous people, environment, migrancy and decolonization. Her books include Invasion to Embassy (1996), Isabel Flick: Many Lives (2004), Rivers and Resilience (2009), Waters of Belonging: Al-miyahu Tajma'unah (2012), and Making Change Happen (2013).
