Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands

"Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands is both a political history of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands and a study of empire, occupation, and decolonization"--

List of contents

1. War comes to the kingdom; 2. The landscape of resistance and the clandestine press; 3. 'Look to the East!' collaboration, colonialism, and compensatory schemes; 4. 'Indies lost, disaster born': the trauma of early 1942; 5. Mutuality, equality, and a Dutch commonwealth: the Queen's speech of December 7, 1942; 6. Countering the commonwealth: the center and right enter the fray; 7. 'After our liberation, that of Indonesia': preparing for battle; 8. Wartime consensus and post-war pressures; Conclusion: the end of an era.

About the author

Jennifer L. Foray is an Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Modern Western European History from Columbia University and her B.A. in Anthropology from Fordham University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the Netherlands, a Foreign Language and Areas Studies fellowship and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant. For the 2010–11 academic year, she served as a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Her teaching and research interests include imperialism and decolonization; social and cultural responses to war and trauma, especially memorialization and commemoration; and the Netherlands. This is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer L. Foray, Jennifer L. (Professor Foray, Foray Jennifer L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107476103
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47610-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Netherlands, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Colonialism and imperialism, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949