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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface and Acknowledgments 9
4. Abbreviations and Glossary 13
5. Introduction 17
6. CHAPTER ONE. American Foreign Policy and the End of Dutch Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia: An Overview 25
7. CHAPTER TWO. “It’s 1776 in Indonesia” 44
8. CHAPTER THREE. The United States and the Dutch East Indies:The Celebration of Capitalism in East and West during the 1920’s 66
9. CHAPTER FOUR. American Visions of Colonial Indonesia from the Great Depression to the Growing Fear of Japan, 1930-1938 83
10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Specter of Japan and America’s Recognition of the Indonesian Archipelago’s Strategic Importance, 1938-1945 100
11. CHAPTER SIX. The Politics of Independence in the Republik Indonesia and International Reactions, 1945-1949 119
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Emerging Cold War and American Perspectives on Decolonization in Southeast Asia in the Postwar Era 142
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. Indonesia’s Struggle for Independence and the Outside World: England,Australia, and the United States in Search of a Peaceful Solution 165
14. CHAPTER NINE. Armed Conflict, the United Nations’ Good Offices Committee, and the Renville Agreement: America’s Involvement in Trying to Reach a Settlement 200
15. CHAPTER TEN. Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia and Indonesian Politics: US Foreign Policy Adrift during the Course of 1948 237
16. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Rescuing the Republic’s Moderates from Soviet Communism: Washington’s Conversion to Unequivocal Support of Indonesia’s Independence 266
17. Epilogue 294
18. Archival Sources and Selective Bibliography 306
19. Sources of Illustrations 313
20. Notes 315
21. Index 369