Scramble for Asia - U.s. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War

Informationen zum Autor Marc Gallicchio is professor of history at Villanova University. His book, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, won the Robert H. Ferrell Senior Book Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also the editor of The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations. Klappentext Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic, military, and economic struggles in which the United States, China, and the Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over Japan. The Allied victory was but a prelude to an American search for a lasting peace across Asia, stretching from Korea to Vietnam and out to the Pacific atolls. Zusammenfassung Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic! military! and economic struggles in which the United States! China! and the Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over Japan. The Allied victory was but a prelude to an American search for a lasting pea... Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: IntermissionChapter 2: The Politics of SurrenderChapter 3: The High Water MarkChapter 4: Domestic Politics and Foreign PolicyChapter 5: Occupational HazardsChapter 6: A Lingering PresenceConclusion: No Peace for AsiaSelected Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Marc Gallicchio, Gallicchio Marc
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2011
• EAN: 9780742544383
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4438-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Total War; Total War: New Perspectives on World War II; Total War: New Perspectives on; Total War; War and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, General & world history, Second World War, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General