Book contents
- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Prologue to Part III
- 7 Colonial Histories
- 8 The Ghosts of Colonialisms Past and the Weight of Occupations Present
- Conclusion to Part III
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion to Part III
from Part III - Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
Book contents
- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Prologue to Part III
- 7 Colonial Histories
- 8 The Ghosts of Colonialisms Past and the Weight of Occupations Present
- Conclusion to Part III
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
“If these barbarians had been able to replace the old colonial authority, why had that authority been necessary at all?”1 With these words, Sutan Sjahrir conveyed how he perceived the impact on his compatriots of the rapid fall of the Dutch East Indies to the Japanese, whose own approach to governance they saw, he claimed, as crude and ignorant. At the same time, the opportunity the Japanese afforded indigenous elites to move higher up the administrative ladder than before served to bolster their confidence in their ability to run their country themselves.
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- OccupiedEuropean and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945, pp. 389 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023