Professor Heather Goodall, UTS, is an award-winning historian of Australian Indigenous people, environment, migrancy and decolonization. Her books include Invasion to Embassy (1996), Isabel Flick: Many Lives (2004), Rivers and Resilience (2009), Waters of Belonging: Al-miyahu Tajma'unah (2012), and Making Change Happen (2013).

• Preface, Glossary, Abbreviations, Part I: Seeing the Region, 1. Everybody's Revolution, 2. Connections and Mobility, Part II: An Asian War, 3. Dangerous Oceans: Merchant Seamen and War, 4. Home and Away: Invaded, Under Arms or Exiled, 5. Sharing the Home Front: Wartime Australia as Transnational Space, Part III: The Boycott of Dutch Shipping, 6. Boycotting Colonialism: Supporting Indonesian Independence in Australia, 7. Seeing the Boycott in the Australian Press, 8. Indian Perspectives: The Boycott as Anti-Colonialism, Part IV: Fighting Two Empires, 9. 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican city, 10. Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Surabaya in Australia, 11. The Acid Test: Seeing Surabaya in India, Part V: Aftermath, 12. Breaking the Boycott, 13. Trading for Freedom, 14. Transnational Visions, Part VI: Reflections, 15. Remembering Heroes, Bibliography, Index