Arc of containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia

• 主要作者: NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing)
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• 主題: Cold War; Chinese diaspora; race and empire; American empire; China; Soviet Union; Vietnam War; Singapore; Malaysia; decolonisation; British imperialism; History; International and Area Studies
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3206
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Arc of Containment traces how British decolonization in Malaya and Singapore intertwined with anticommunist nationalism across Southeast Asia to shape U.S. policy in Vietnam and the wider region. In so doing, the book recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War I...