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1 online resource (572 pages) |
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The Postwar World |
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Postwar world.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Author's Note; Editorial Foreword; Part I Decolonisation; Chapter One. General Considerations; Internal and overseas empires; international attitudes towards 'self-determination' and colonies; Problems of generalisation; the contrasting experiences of: Canada; the Punjab; Kuwait and Zanzibar; Singapore and Hong Kong; Competition between collaborators and nationalists; mix of 'modern' and 'traditionalist' elements within the nationalist movements; Ease of colonial acquisition |
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Rising costs of postwar colonial governmentWaning metropolitan enthusiasm for imperial rule (Britain); Belgium and the Congo; France and Algeria; Portugal and Africa; Different types of settler colonies; Chapter Two. Indonesia, Indo-China, and India; Decolonisation to 1945; US wartime attitudes towards colonialism; French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies 1945-6; French-Vietminh and Dutch-Indonesian negotiations 1946; The French decision to use force in Vietnam 1946; Dutch 'police actions' in Indonesia 1947-8; Indonesian independence(1949) and its aftermath; West Irian |
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The French war in Indo-China 1947-53India 1936-45; Partition and the transfer of power 1946-7; Kashmir, Junagadh and Hyderabad; Indo-Pakistani divergence; the wars of 1965 and 1971; India, Britain and the Commonwealth; Chapter Three. The End of Empire; The survival in the 1940s of imperial attitudes, despite extensive decolonisation; Malaya and the Gold Coast (Ghana) 1948-57; Nigeria; The ensuing scramble to decolonise; Systemic implications of decolonisation; The superpowers' limited role; Chapter Four. Southern Africa; The Central African Federation 1953-63; Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) |
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South Africa and apartheidSouth-West Africa (Namibia) and Angola; South Africa under P.W. Botha 1978-89; The impact of sanctions on South Africa; De Klerk releases Mandela 1990; The rocky road to a negotiated settlement; Part II East Asia and the Pacific; Chapter Five. The Chinese Civil War; China to 1945; The failure of US mediation 1943-6; Non-military factors in the KMT defeat; Military operations 1946-9; Communist victory 1949; US detachment in the civil war; US commitment to Taiwan 1949-51; US policy towards the People's Republic from 1949; Chapter Six. The Indo-Chinese Wars |
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North and South Vietnam (1954-60)Laos 1956-75; South Vietnam: Kennedy and Diem; The 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident and congressional resolution, 1964; Johnson's 1965 decision to commit US forces; Johnson's strategic mistakes; The Tet offensive (January 1968); Nixon's plans to end the war 1968-9; Vietnamisation; The Lon Nol coup in Cambodia 1970; The 1971 South Vietnamese attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail; the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive; Secret negotiations and the 1973 cease-fire agreement; Congress precludes US action to enforce the agreement (1973); Communist victories 1975 |
| Summary |
This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern Africa, South East Asia and India, East Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. It concludes with a sustained analysis of the International System -- the functioning of international organizations and the global role of money and trade |
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Reasons for the US failure |
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Print version record |
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Cold War.
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Great powers.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Great powers
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World politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317892946 |
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1317892941 |
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