Subversive Seas

Name: Subversive Seas | Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire
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Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire

Kris Alexanderson(Autor*in)

Cambridge University Press

Erschienen am 17. April 2019

316 Seiten

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This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles of the 1920s and 30s. Port cities such as Jeddah, Shanghai, and Batavia were hotbeds for the spread of nationalism, communism, pan-Islamism, and pan-Asianism, and became important centers of opposition to Dutch imperialism through the circulation of passengers, laborers, and religious pilgrims. In response to growing maritime threats, the Dutch government and shipping companies attempted to secure oceanic spaces and maintain hegemony abroad through a web of control. Techniques included maritime policing networks, close collaboration with British and French surveillance entities ashore, and maintaining segregation on ships, which was meant to 'teach' those on board their position within imperial hierarchies. This innovative study exposes how anti-colonialism was shaped not only within the terrestrial confines of metropole and colony, but across the transoceanic spaces in between.

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'Alexanderson demonstrates that we cannot understand imperialism by simply focusing on the terrestrial claims of colonial powers. Rather, she reveals the myriad ways maritime networks, including actual ships themselves, helped define colonial structures and also provided unique, cosmopolitan spaces of connection for colonial subjects. Subversive Seas makes crucial contributions to Southeast Asian history, maritime history, and transnational/world history.' Heather Streets-Salter, Northeastern University, Massachusetts 'Extensively researched and gracefully written, Subversive Seas demonstrates that Dutch shipping companies and maritime priorities both informed and reflected colonial policies during the period that would prove to be the twilight of Dutch imperial rule in Asia. Scholars working in numerous subfields - science and technology studies, maritime history, imperial history, decolonization studies, East Asian history, and modern Dutch history, among others - will value the insights Alexanderson offers in this important book.' Jennifer L. Foray, Purdue University, Indiana 'Elegantly written, a joy to read, and aided by plentiful footnotes, Alexanderson's study is all the stronger for its concluding discussion of the decolonization of Indonesia in the post-1945 era and the subsequent historiographical 'decolonization of the Dutch colonial past', to which her book ably contributes.' Nicholas J. White, Journal of Interdisciplinary History '... a welcome contribution to colonial history and to the new imperial history in particular.' Ulbe Bosma, Journal of Modern History

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