Cold war and national assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962 (Record no. 232050)

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International Standard Book Number 9780415554763
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Classification number 327.730591 FOL
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Personal name Foley, Matthew
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Title Cold war and national assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
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Extent 216 p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country?s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period ? assumptions, expectations and apprehensions that would, eventually, lead America into the disaster of Vietnam. The book suggests the key to understanding British and American approaches to Southeast Asia is to see them in terms of a search for order and stability in an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world. Such order had previously been provided by the colonial regimes of the European powers. With those regimes gone or going, British and American planners faced a region beset with new uncertainties, led by a set of nationalist politicians driven by very different, and often competing, goals and aspirations. A detailed case study of post-colonial transition in Asia in the context of the emerging Cold War, this book focuses on the retraction of European colonial power in Southeast Asia, the concomitant expansion of US engagement in the region and the broad processes underpinning these changes. It draws on unique, previously unpublished British and American archival material relating to the Burmese case and fills an important gap in historical understanding of Western engagement in Southeast Asia..
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United states-Foreign relations-Burma
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  Not Missing Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2020-02-08 9000.00   327.730591 FOL 148868 2020-02-08 9000.00 2020-02-08 Books

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