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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 6 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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