Table of Contents

Table of Contents - 6[-]Preface and Acknowledgments - 10[-]Abbreviations and Glossary - 14[-]Introduction - 18[-]1 American Foreign Policy and the End of Dutch Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia: An Overview - 26[-]2 -It's 1776 in Indonesia� - 45[-]3 The United States and the Dutch East Indies: the Celebration of Capitalism in East and West during the 1920's - 67[-]4 American Visions of Colonial Indonesia from the Great Depression to the Growing Fear of Japan, 1930-1938 - 84[-]5 The Specter of Japan and America's Recognition of the Indonesian Archipelago's Strategic Importance, 1938-1945 - 101[-]6 The Politics of Independence in the Republik Indonesia and International Reactions, 1945-1949 - 120[-]7 The Emerging Cold War and American Perspectives on Decolonization in Southeast Asia in the Postwar Era - 143[-]8 Indonesia's Struggle for Independence and the Outside World:England, Australia, and the United States in Search of a Peaceful Solution - 166[-]9 Armed Conflict,the United Nations'Good Offices Committee, and the Renville Agreement: America's Involvement in Trying to Reach a Settlement - 201[-]10 Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia and Indonesian Politics:US Foreign Policy Adrift during the Course of 1948 - 238[-]11 Rescuing the Republic's Moderates from Soviet Communism:Washington's Conversion to Unequivocal Support of Indonesia's Independence - 267[-]Epilogue - 295[-]Archival Sources and Selective Bibliography - 307[-]Sources of Illustrations - 314[-]Notes - 316[-]Index - 370

About the Author

Frances Gouda is professor of history and gender studies at the Belle van Zuylen Institute at the University of Amsterdam.|Thijs Brocades Zaalberg is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam.