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 structures in a changing world, 1914-1942
'Flies spoling 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 rising pressure : the first year of the occupation, March 1942-December 1942
'Colonialism is colonialism' : mobilization, 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 hold that smells of earth' : the UN year, December 1948-December 1949
Into the light of morning : the Indonesian Revolution and the world after 1950.