Arc of containment : Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia / Wen-Qing Ngoei
- Bib ID:
- 8051218
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976-, author
- Description:
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- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019
- ©2019
- x, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781501716409 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- 1501716409 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- United States in the world.
- Summary:
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"Shows how anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and its diaspora, ushering the region from European-dominated colonialism to U.S. hegemony"--
- Full contents:
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- Introduction : recovering the regional dimensions of U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia
- Darkest moment : the fall of Singapore and "Chinese penetration" in the domino logic of American Cold War policy
- Patriot games : how British nation-building colonialism solved "Chinese penetration" and inspired the United States
- Manifest fantasies : British-Malayan counterinsurgency and nation-building in American strategy for the world (and Vietnam)
- The best hope : Malaysia in the "wide anti-communist arc" of Southeast Asia
- The friendly kings : Southeast Asia's transition from Anglo-American predominance to U.S. hegemony
- Coda : the reverse domino effect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Communism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Nationalism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Postcolonialism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Chinese -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Southeast Asia
- United States
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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