What do you think?
Rate this book


366 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
"It is imperative for foreign historians—who are sympathetic to the Indonesian people and harbor an ardent love for Indonesian history—to acknowledge that they cannot extricate themselves from the clutches of colonial historical writing so long as they continue to subscribe to truncated and sharpened historical perspectives. Failure to do so will only perpetuate the pervasive influence of colonialism on the historiographical discourse and limits the possibility of decolonizing the historical narrative.
The contention that the obliteration of impudent historical views concerning three and a half centuries of Dutch colonization may well signify a pivotal shift of historical writing—from colonial to national."