Subversive Seas - Anticolonial Networks Across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

List of contents

Introduction: transoceanic mobility and modern imperialism; Part I. At Sea: 1. Kongsi Tiga: security and insecurity on Hajj ships; 2. Java-China-Japan Lijn: Asian shipping and imperial representation; 3. The Dutch mails: passenger liners as colonial classrooms; Part II. In Port: 4. Pan-Islamism abroad: regulation and resistance in the Middle East; 5. Policing communism: ships, seamen, and political networks in Asia; 6. Japanese penetration: imperial upheavals in the 1930s; Conclusion: oceanic decolonization and cultural amnesia in the twenty-first century.

About the author

Kris Alexanderson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of the Pacific, California.

Summary

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire is at once a global history of maritime networks connecting colonial Indonesia to port cities in East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and a ship-level history of the everyday lives and political struggles of colonial subjects travelling across the world's oceans.

Product details

• Authors: Kris Alexanderson, Kris (University of the Pacific Alexanderson, ALEXANDERSON KRIS
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108472029
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47202-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; European History, Asia, HISTORY / World, maritime history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Netherlands, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History