Beyond Borders - Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 Goodall HeatherPevná vazba
Beyond Borders - Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 Goodall HeatherPevná vazba This book rediscovers an intense internationalism-and charts its loss-in the Indonesian…
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Beyond Borders - Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 Goodall HeatherPevná vazba
This book rediscovers an intense internationalism-and charts its loss-in the Indonesian Revolution. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. 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.
And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was eventually buried behind the hardening borders of emerging nations and hostile Cold War