A Unified Empire of Equal Parts
The Dutch Commonwealth Schemes of the 1920s–40s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11944590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer L Foray (0009-0004-9041-2136, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-284 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2013.768095 |
| OpenAlex | W2041053015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
A few short years after the end of the Second World War, the Dutch colony in the East Indies became the independent Republic of Indonesia. Importantly, the final agreement signed in 1949 also established a Dutch-Indonesian Union, a loose commonwealth connecting the two nations. Contemporary and recent observers alike have dismissed this Union as a last-ditch and ultimately futile effort by the Dutch to maintain their fading imperial authority, but, as this article demonstrates, the commonwealth idea originated years before the events of decolonisation. Exploring the various schemes advanced during the 1930s and 1940s, this article devotes particular attention to the period 1941–45, when members of the Dutch resistance in the German-occupied metropole proposed and debated the Netherlands' imperial future for the benefit of a general public seemingly willing to consider colonial reform. Seen in light of its pre-war and wartime popularity, the commonwealth's post-war appearance hardly seems surprising or desperate. Rather, it emerges as a logical outgrowth of decades-old ideas and developments in both the European Netherlands and the East Indies
Colonialism · Commonwealth · Declaration · Decolonization · Economic history · Empire · Interwar period · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Asian Studies and History · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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Foreign Relations of the United States
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Netherlands India
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia
Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia
The Routledge Companion to Decolonization
The Blue-Eyed Enemy Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
Colonial planning during World War II
The Never-Ending Debt of Honour
The United States and the Netherlands East Indies
The Netherlands, the United States and the Indonesian Question, 1948
The Dissolution of the Colonial Empires
Dutch Expansion in the Indonesian Archipelago Around 1900 and the Imperialism Debate
Mission Impossible
The Dutch East Indies and the Reorientation of Dutch Social Democracy, 1929-40
Decolonization
The Pattern of Administrative Reforms in the Closing Years of Dutch Rule in Indonesia
The Stakes of Democracy in Southeast Asia
The Trauma of Decolonization
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |