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Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands

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General European HistoryGerman HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1107015804
ISBN13: 9781107015807
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 21 2011
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book explores how the experiences of World War II shaped and transformed Dutch perceptions of their centuries-old empire. Focusing on the work of leading anti-Nazi resisters, Jennifer L. Foray examines how the war forced a rethinking of colonial practices and relationships. As Dutch resisters planned for a postwar world bearing little resemblance to that of 1940, they envisioned a wide range of possibilities for their empire and its territories, anticipating a newly harmonious relationship between the Netherlands and its most prized colony in the East Indies. Though most of the underground writers and thinkers discussed in this book ultimately supported the idea of a Dutch commonwealth, this structure wouldn't come to pass in the postwar period. The Netherlands instead embarked on a violent decolonization process brought about by wartime conditions in the Netherlands and the East Indies.

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