Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949/Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia dalam Gambar
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Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949/Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia dalam Gambar
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€ 39,00
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9789087283797
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Paperback
Number of pages
256
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English
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17 x 24 cm
Discipline
Asian Studies
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About the cover
Preface
Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 (Gert Oostindie)
The Indonesian Revolution: War Propaganda in Pamphlets (Muhammad Yuanda Zara)
Collecting, viewing and telling (Marieke Bloembergen & Alicia Schrikker)
1 Calls to Join the Fight
2 Framing the Opponent
3 Violence in Text and Image
4 Iconic Events and People
5 Voices from the War
6 Daily Life
PERANG KEMERDEKAAN INDONESIA DALAM GAMBAR 1945-1949
BEELDEN VAN DE INDONESISCHE ONAFHANKELIJKHEIDSOORLOG 1945-1949
Bibliography

Gert Oostindie (ed.)

Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949/Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia dalam Gambar

Four years of protracted negotiations and bitter warfare passed between the declaration of Indonesian independence on 17 August, 1945, and the official transfer of sovereignty on 27 December, 1949. Whereas the newly proclaimed Republic of Indonesia rejected the colonial regime and hence any attempt at ‘recolonization’ by the Dutch after the Japanese occupation (1942-1945), the Dutch framed their return to the archipelago as a mission to restore ‘order and peace’. Images of the Indonesian War. Many of these materials, alongside photographs and oral history collections, ended up in the collections of the KITLV and eventually the Leiden University Libraries. This trilingual (English, Dutch and Indonesian) catalogue accompanies a digital exhibition of some fifty unique items. The selection made demonstrates the sharply contrasting perspectives on the legitimacy of the Republic and Dutch colonialism, and also offers first-hand testimonies of a bitter war with a huge imbalance of casualties.
Authors

Sander van der Horst

Sander van der Horst is a research master student in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University.
Editor

Gert Oostindie

Gert Oostindie is director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.