From the Book - First American edition.
The VOC mentality: why Indonesia wrote world history
Assembling the jigsaw puzzle: Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia, 1605-1914
The colonial steamship: social structure in a changing world, 1914-1942
'Flies spoiling the chemist's ointment': anti-colonial movements, 1914-1933
Silence: the final years of the colonial regime, 1934-1941
The pincer and the oil fields: the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, December 1941-March 1942
The land of the rising pressure: the first year of the occupation, March 1942-December 1942
'Colonialism is colonialism': mobilisation, famine and growing resistance, January 1943-late 1944
'Our blood is forever warm': the tumultuous road to the Proklamasi, March 1944-August 1945
'Free! Of! Everything!': republican violence and the British nightmare, August 1945-December 1945
'An errand of mercy': the British year, January-November 1946
The trap: the Dutch year, November 1946-July 1947
'Unacceptable, unpalatable and unfair': the American year, August 1947-December 1948
'A big hole that smells of earth': the UN year, December 1948-December 1949
Into the light of morning: the Indonesian revolution and the world after 1950.
