Arc of containment : Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia / Wen-Qing Ngoei. [electronic resource]
Material type:
TextSeries: United States in the worldPublisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type: - 9781501716423 (e-book)
- 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
- 327.73059 23
- DS525.9.U6 .N464 2019
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.