Book contents
- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Prologue to Part III
- 7 Colonial Histories
- 8 The Ghosts of Colonialisms Past and the Weight of Occupations Present
- Conclusion to Part III
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
from Part III - Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Prologue to Part III
- 7 Colonial Histories
- 8 The Ghosts of Colonialisms Past and the Weight of Occupations Present
- Conclusion to Part III
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The eleven cases of wartime occupation discussed in this book have been arranged under three umbrella themes: patriotism, civil war, and colonial legacy, respectively. These have been intended to serve as comparative frameworks rather than denoting hard-and-fast typological categories. They do not come close to exhausting the pool of potential organizing principles, nor are they mutually exclusive. Patriotism was, obviously, a hotly contested issue in all these societies, not just those that retained a semblance of unitary sovereignty or administrative continuity. Deep internal divisions and inter-factional violence were not restricted to those countries included in the civil-war section. Even the category of colonialism has ragged boundaries. For example, Ukrainians’ pre-war relationships with Poland and the Soviet Union were more complicated than can be captured by a reductionist characterization of them as either victims of imperialism or not. Indeed, one of the effects of this comparative exercise has been to highlight the plasticity – particularly under the high-pressure circumstances of occupation – of concepts such as “patriotism,” “civil war,” and “anti-colonial struggle.” That said, some broad patterns marking relations of occupiers with occupied can be discerned.
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- OccupiedEuropean and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945, pp. 397 - 410Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023