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标题：Een groots en meeslepend leven
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作者：Kees Snoek ; Kees Snoek
期刊名称：Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
印刷版ISSN：1411-2272
电子版ISSN：2407-6899
出版年度：2019
卷号：20
期号：3
页码：592-594
DOI：10.17510/wacana.v20i3.792
语种：English
出版社：University of Indonesia
摘要：Three years after his biography of Herman Salomonson, Gerard Termorshuizen (o1935) adds another biography to his impressive list of publications, this one co-authored by Coen van ’t Veer (o 1968). This new biography is devoted to one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures of twentieth century Dutch colonial history: Dominique Berretty (1891-1934). After his death, at the age of 43, in a plane crash in the Syrian desert, obituaries emphasized the complexity of this personality, whose public life showed ruthless ambition, whereas his private life had romantic overtones. Ideologically, Berretty positioned himself on the right wing of colonial politics. Repeatedly, the two biographers point out that Berretty supported conservative colonial attitudes through thick and thin. He rejected the striving of Indonesian nationalists for autonomy or independence, although, in 1916, he also emphasized the need to educate the Indonesian people, believing that education would ultimately be to the advantage of the colonial ruler: “the native should be raised in love for the flag, for which we Dutch people are willing to fight”. According to the biographers, this is “a statement which shows little political insight” (p. 56). It is, however, a statement in accordance with the so-called associatiegedachte, ’concept of association’ – between natives and Europeans - fostered by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) in the early twentieth century but widely rejected by the nineteen twenties.