| Description |
1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; KEY AND GLOSSARY; MAPS; Territorial Divisions in Peninsular Malaya; South and Southeast Asia in 1956; The Songkhla Position in the 1950s; The BDCC and ANZAM areas in the early 1950s; INTRODUCTION; 1 FRAMEWORKS; Policy Making Contexts; Metropolitan Politics; Economic Benefits; Economic Constraints and Strategy; Strategic Concepts; 2 1942 AND THE 'LESSONS' OF SINGAPORE; The Fall of Singapore; A Dominion of Southeast Asia; 3 REGIONAL AMBITIONS AND LIMITED RESOURCES (1945-54); SEAC to Asian Cold War |
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Britain, the United States and Southeast AsiaBritain, Australia and Southeast Asia; Songkhla and the External Defence of Malaya; 4 A BOTTOMLESS PIT? FORCES AND BASES (1945-54); Indian Forces; Defending Malaya; The Emergency; Decolonisation; Forces: British, Local and Naval; 5 1954 AND CONTINUITY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE; Dien Bien Phu and the Loss of Tonkin; The Geneva Conference; The Birth of SEATO; Change and Continuity in British Strategies; Change and Continuity in Australian Policies; 6 SEATO AND REGIONAL POLICY (1954-57); The Indochinese Successor States; The Bandung Conference to SEATO |
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SEATO Policies 1955 to 19577 MERDEKA AND BASES (1954-57); Malaya; Singapore; Merger and Bases; Australian Responses to Decolonisation 1956 to 1957; 8 MERDEKA AND FORCES (1954-57); Air and Land Forces; The Royal Navy 'East of Suez'; 9 EPILOGUE: FROM MALAYAN INDEPENDENCE TO BRITISH WITHDRAWAL; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. Also, it shows how decolonisation was shaped not just by British aims, but by the way communism, communalism and nationalism facilitated and frustrated these |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-331) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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British colonies
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Diplomatic relations
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Military readiness
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Politics and government
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Malaya -- Politics and government
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Singapore -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007832
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Defenses
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Malaya -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Singapore -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Defenses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056638
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Asia
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Great Britain
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Malaya
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136839085 |
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1136839089 |
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