| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/ Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920–1949. By Frances Gouda with Thijs Brocades Zaalberg. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. 382 pp. Paper, € 31.90, ISBN 90-5356-479-9.)

Those of us who study the history of U.S. relations with Indonesia know this relationship is so rich and important that we are continually surprised that few people have explored it. Each new monograph adds considerably to the too-small stock of knowledge. Frances Gouda and Thijs Brocades Zaalberg's study of the U.S.-Indonesian-Dutch relationship from 1920 to 1950 provides an informative and often revealing complement to the classic standards. The heart of the book is an in-depth exploration of the U.S. reaction to the Indonesian struggle, during 1945–1949, finally to win independence. The two chapters devoted to the earlier period serve primarily to explain the tenaciousness of American views of the Dutch as competent, efficient, and deserving colonial rulers despite the changing circumstances after World War II.

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