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Subversive Seas - Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (Hardcover)
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Subversive Seas - Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (Hardcover)
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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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