Hong Kong, Empire and the Anglo-American Alliance

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW WHITFIELD researched the book in the UK, Hong Kong and the USA. He now lives in London and works for the British government in Whitehall. Klappentext The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941 started the collapse of British power in the Far East. Disproportionate to its small size! the colony became critical in Britain's battle to retain her Empire. Ironically! the threat to British sovereignty came not from Japan! but her own allies! America and China. New light is shed on the multi-faceted Anglo-American relationship! the significance of Britain's 'imperial mentality'! and China's claim to the colony. Zusammenfassung The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941 started the collapse of British power in the Far East. New light is shed on the multi-faceted Anglo-American relationship, the significance of Britain's 'imperial mentality', and China's claim to the colony. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Maps Introduction Return and Departure: The Fall and Recapture of Hong Kong, 1941 and 1945 The Meaning of Empire: Imperial Consensus, Whitehall and Hong Kong The Anglo-American Relationship at War, 1941-45 An Empire Brought into Question, 1942 China Claims Hong Kong 1942-43 London's Hong Kong Planning, 1943-44 Anglo-American Military Strategy in the Far East, 1942-44 The Cairo Conference Hard Choices: November 1944-June 1945 Yalta, the Death of a President, and San Francisco Return of the Empire: The Defeat of Japan, July-September 1945 Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography and Sources Index

Product details

• Authors: A Whitfield, A. Whitfield
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349419692
• ISBN: 978-1-349-41969-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Contemporary History in Context; Contemporary History in Contex; Contemporary History in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; B, History, Second World War, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Britain;chronology;empire