Vietnam And The Unravelling Of Empire

Author : T. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137448717
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire written by T. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War and Indian independence devastated British policy towards Asia. The Labour Government failed to understand its commitments. Yet some senior British officers were prepared to work alongside Asian nationalism in order to secure British interests. This created a radical local fusion of imperial, diplomatic and humanitarian policies.

Author : T. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137448717
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire written by T. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War and Indian independence devastated British policy towards Asia. The Labour Government failed to understand its commitments. Yet some senior British officers were prepared to work alongside Asian nationalism in order to secure British interests. This created a radical local fusion of imperial, diplomatic and humanitarian policies.

Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000594408
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pakistan's Wars written by Tariq Rahman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the wars Pakistan has fought over the years with India as well as other non-state actors. Focusing on the first Kashmir war (1947–48), the wars of 1965 and 1971, and the 1999 Kargil war, it analyses the elite decision-making, which leads to these conflicts and tries to understand how Pakistan got involved in the first place. The author applies the ‘gambling model’ to provide insights into the dysfunctional world view, risk-taking behaviour, and other behavioural patterns of the decision makers, which precipitate these wars and highlight their effects on India–Pakistan relations for the future. The book also brings to the fore the experience of widows, children, common soldiers, displaced civilians, and villagers living near borders, in the form of interviews, to understand the subaltern perspective. A nuanced and accessible military history of Pakistan, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, defence and strategic studies, international relations, political studies, war and conflict studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375504427
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embers of War written by Fredrik Logevall and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors.

Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Kerr Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1875703608
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uncrowned King of Cambodia written by David Chandler and published by Kerr Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Lt Col Edward D (Moke) Murray]… an outstanding officer in the Indian Army and became a Gurkha commander in Malaya. In 1939 he fired the crucial shot that dispersed a strike that threatened the Raj. He became an outstanding leader in the fight against the Japanese in Assam and Burma. He suppressed the Viet Minh in Saigon in 1945, in what can be seen as the start of the Vietnam War. He was Allied Land Commander in Cambodia and supervised the surrender of the Japanese there. In 1953 he was cheered by millions along the eight-kilometre route of Elizabeth II’s coronation parade as he marched at the head of the hugely popular Gurkha contingent. But when he died not a single obituary of him appeared, apart from a short notice in the Gurkha gazette. From Anthony Barnett’s Introduction What sort of man was ‘Moke’ Murray, this forgotten Achilles of the dying British Empire? He served his King in wars from Waziristan to Burma and helped to shape the future of Indochina. But, as this touching and fascinating biography recounts, he ended his life in lonely poverty as the Empire itself dissolved and fell out of memory. Neal Ascherson, novelist, reporter and historian

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American History Day by Day written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For student research, this reference highlights the importance of Asian Americans in U.S. history, the impact of specific individuals, and this ethnic group as a whole across time; documenting evolving policies, issues, and feelings concerning this particular American population. Asian American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides a uniquely interesting way to learn about events in Asian American history that span several hundred years (and the contributions of Asian Americans to U.S. culture in that time). The book is organized in the form of a calendar, with each day of the year corresponding with an entry about an important event, person, or innovation that span several hundred years of Asian American history and references to books and websites that can provide more information about that event. Readers will also have access to primary source document excerpts that accompany the daily entries and serve as additional resources that help bring history to life. With this guide in hand, teachers will be able to more easily incorporate Asian American history into their classes, and students will find the book an easy-to-use guide to the Asian American past and an ideal "jumping-off point" for more targeted research.

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835285
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arc of Empire written by Michael H. Hunt and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that America's wars in The Philippines, Japan, Korea and Vietnam were actually all part of a sustained U.S. bid for dominance in Asia.

Author : T. O. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137555327
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000 written by T. O. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to provide a historical reappraisal of Cambodia’s relationships with the West. Contributors to the volume examine moments of historical import in Cambodia's history, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. These include Cambodia’s first contacts with European mercantilism; the establishment of formal French colonialism and commercialism; British peace enforcement and diplomacy after the Second World War; independence, modernisation and the onset of the Cold War and the United Nations peace process; and the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal of more recent times. The result is a unique and significant new analysis of some of Cambodia’s most controversial interactions with the West, demonstrating how far the West has shaped the development of Cambodia in the contemporary epoch.

Author : Stanley Karnow
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Stanley Karnow and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1983 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."-Boston Globe. "Superb, balanced in interpretation... immensely readable and full of new and interesting detail."-George Herring, Univ. of Kentucky.

Author : Cathie Carmichael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131751484X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Genocide written by Cathie Carmichael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Genocide takes an interdisciplinary yet historically focused look at history from the Iron Age to the recent past to examine episodes of extreme violence that could be interpreted as genocidal. Approaching the subject in a sensitive, inclusive and respectful way, each chapter is a newly commissioned piece covering a range of opinions and perspectives. The topics discussed are broad in variety and include: genocide and the end of the Ottoman Empire Stalin and the Soviet Union Iron Age warfare genocide and religion Japanese military brutality during the Second World War heritage and how we remember the past. The volume is global in scope, something of increasing importance in the study of genocide. Presenting genocide as an extremely diverse phenomenon, this book is a wide-ranging and in-depth view of the field that will be valuable for all those interested in the historical context of genocide.