Mapping the End of Empire : : American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World / / Aiyaz Husain.
By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world through very different lenses. Mapping t...
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Husain, Aiyaz, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mapping the End of Empire : American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World / Aiyaz Husain. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (384 p.) : 6 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 All of Palestine -- 2 Remapping Zion -- 3 The Contested Valley -- 4 Keystone of the Strategic Arch -- 5 Imperial Residues -- 6 Two Visions of the Postwar World -- 7 Maps, Ideas, and Geopolitics -- 8 Joining the Community of Nations -- 9 From Imagined to Real Borders -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world through very different lenses. Mapping the End of Empire reveals how Anglo-American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia. Aiyaz Husain shows that American and British postwar strategy drew on popular notions of geography as well as academic and military knowledge. Once codified in maps and memoranda, these perspectives became foundations of foreign policy. In South Asia, American officials envisioned an independent Pakistan blocking Soviet influence, an objective that outweighed other considerations in the contested Kashmir region. Shoring up Pakistan meshed perfectly with British hopes for a quiescent Indian subcontinent once partition became inevitable. But serious differences with Britain arose over America's support for the new state of Israel. Viewing the Mediterranean as a European lake of sorts, U.S. officials--even in parts of the State Department--linked Palestine with Europe, deeming it a perfectly logical destination for Jewish refugees. But British strategists feared that the installation of a Jewish state in Palestine could incite Muslim ire from one corner of the Islamic world to the other. As Husain makes clear, these perspectives also influenced the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and blueprints for the UN Security Council and shaped French and Dutch colonial fortunes in the Levant and the East Indies. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Decolonization Middle East. Decolonization South Asia. Geographical perception Middle East. Geographical perception South Asia. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674728882 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419438 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674419438 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674419438.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 All of Palestine -- 2 Remapping Zion -- 3 The Contested Valley -- 4 Keystone of the Strategic Arch -- 5 Imperial Residues -- 6 Two Visions of the Postwar World -- 7 Maps, Ideas, and Geopolitics -- 8 Joining the Community of Nations -- 9 From Imagined to Real Borders -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 All of Palestine -- 2 Remapping Zion -- 3 The Contested Valley -- 4 Keystone of the Strategic Arch -- 5 Imperial Residues -- 6 Two Visions of the Postwar World -- 7 Maps, Ideas, and Geopolitics -- 8 Joining the Community of Nations -- 9 From Imagined to Real Borders -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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