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Arc of Containment Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia
Title
Arc of Containment [electronic resource] : Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia / Wen-Qing Ngoei.
ISBN
1501716425
9781501716416
9781501716423
9781501716409
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 online resource.)
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Asian and Pacific Studies
Project MUSE - 2019 History
Other formats
Print version: Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976- author. Arc of containment Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
The United States in the world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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