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Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam, and the Origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949-1954

By Steven Hugh Lee

Book information

Publisher
Mcgill-Queens University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0773513264, 9780773513266
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17452513 bytes)
Pages
295\310
Time added
2017-04-09 23:06:21
World;Civilization & Culture;Expeditions & Discove

Description

Drawing on a wide range of recently declassified documents, Lee outlines the regional and international context of American diplomatic history towards Korea and Vietnam and analyses the relationship between containment, the bipolar international system, and European and American concepts of empire at the beginning of the era of decolonization. He argues that although policy makers in the United Kingdom and Canada adopted a more defensive containment policy towards Communist China than the United States did, they generally supported American attempts to promote pro-Western élites in Korea and Vietnam. This is an important book for anyone interested in American foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, Asia and the international system, and British and Canadian foreign policies.

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