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

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Author / Creator:Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976- author.
Imprint:Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The United States in the world
United States in the world.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11864523
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ISBN:9781501716409
1501716409
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:Online version: Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976- author. Arc of containment Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501716416
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Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation.

Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to US hegemony. Central to this revisionary strategic assessment is the place of British power and the effects of direct neocolonial military might and less overt cultural influences based on decades of colonial rule, as well as the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period.

Arc of Containment demonstrates that American failure in Vietnam had less long-term consequences than widely believed because British pro-West nationalism had been firmly entrenched twenty-plus years earlier. In effect, Ngoei argues, the Cold War in Southeast Asia was but one violent chapter in the continuous history of western imperialism in the region in the twentieth century.

Physical Description:x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501716409
1501716409