Beyond Borders : : Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945 to 1950 / / Heather Goodall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Goodall, Heather,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Asian History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 19 halftones, 1 line drawing

This book 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 1945-49 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grass-roots levels in India and Australia. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was eventually buried behind the hardening borders of emerging nations and hostile Cold War blocs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 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 or Under Arms -- 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 Anticolonialism -- Part IV. Fighting Two Empires -- 9. 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican City -- 10. Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Battle and Boycott 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 -- Glossary -- Spelling -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index