| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia/ Frances Gouda with Thijs Brocades Zaalberg. |
| Reminder of title: |
US foreign policy and Indonesian nationalism, 1920-1949 / |
| Author: |
Gouda, Frances, |
| other author: |
Zaalberg, Thijs Brocades. |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press, : 2002., |
| Description: |
382 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
American foreign policy and the end of Dutch colonial rule in southeast Asia: an overview -- "It's 1776 in Indonesia" -- The United States and the Dutch East Indies: the celebration of capitalism in west and east during the 1920's -- American visions of colonial Indonesia from the Great Depression to the growing fear of Japan, 1930-1938 -- The specter of Japan and America's recognition of the Indonesian archipelago's strategic importance, 1938-1945 -- The politics of independence in the Republik Indonesia and international reactions, 1945-1949 -- The emerging Cold War and American perspectives on decolonization in southeast Asia in the postwar era -- Indonesia's struggle for independence and the outside world: England, Australia, and the United States in search of a peaceful solution -- Armed conflict, the United Nations' Good Offices Committee, and the Renville Agreement: America's involvement in trying to reach a settlement -- Soviet strategies in southeast Asia and Indonesian politics: US foreign policy adrift during the course of 1948 -- Rescuing the Republic's moderates from Soviet communism: Washington's conversion to unequivocal support of Indonesia's independence. |
| Subject: |
Decolonization - History. - Indonesia - |
| Subject: |
Indonesia - Foreign relations - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=109022An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417521562 (electronic bk.) |