Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the (Hardcover)

Subversive Seas\nby Kris Alexanderson\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kris Alexanderson\nTitle: Subversive Seas\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781108472029\nISBN-10: 1108472028\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles of the 1920s and 30s. Port cities such as Jeddah, Shanghai, and Batavia were hotbeds for the spread of nationalism, communism, pan-Islamism, and pan-Asianism, and became important centers of opposition to Dutch imperialism through the circulation of p.