From Far East to Asia Pacific : : Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954 /

From Far East to Asia Pacific : : Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954 / / ed. by Brian P. Farrell, S.R. Joey Long, David Ulbrich.

The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they vied for influence and ultimately hegemony in the region. At the turn of the...

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MitwirkendeR:
Benvenuti, Andrea,
Brown, Shannon A.,
Burgess, Charles,
Dean, Peter,
Farrell, Brian P.,
Fumihito, Yamamoto,
Hack, Karl,
Long, S.R. Joey,
Rutkowski, Marek W.,
Simony, Lauriane,
Ulbrich, David J,
Ulbrich, David J.,
Yellen, Jeremy A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Farrell, Brian P.,
Long, S.R. Joey,
Ulbrich, David,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Studies in Military History , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIV, 411 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors and Acknowledgements
  • Sources: List of Abbreviations used in Citations
  • Glossary: Names and Spelling
  • From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy, 1900–1954
  • Section One
  • Follow the Money: E for Economics and Grand Strategy
  • Grand Strategy by Other Means: US Foreign Policy, Public-Private Collaboration, and “Employing all Proper Methods in China,” 1895–1914
  • Follow the Money: The Manchurian Incident, Economic Recovery and Japan’s Policy Change in the 1930s
  • Section Two
  • Military Power in Grand Strategy, 1900–1954
  • Facing the Rising Sun in the Pacific: Grand Strategy, the US Marine Corps and Amphibious Capabilities, 1900–1941
  • Twilight in China: Great Powers and the Defence of Shanghai, 1925–1937
  • “To Treat China as a Great Power”: Great Britain, Southeast Asia, and American Grand Strategy for the Defeat of Japan, 1941–1945
  • Grand Strategy and Its Layers: Britain and Southeast Asia, 1946–1954
  • Section Three
  • Diplomacy, (Hot and Cold) War, and Grand Strategy, 1940–1954
  • What Grand Strategy? Japan, 1931–1945
  • Frustrating the Americans and Befriending the Communists: Nehru’s Policy in the Early Asian Cold War, 1947–1954
  • The British Council and Its Rivals: Great Powers’ Cultural Competition in Post-Independence Burma, 1948–1955
  • Adversaries, Allies and the Shaping of US Grand Strategy: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1954 Geneva Conference
  • Expanding the Area of Peace: India and the Geneva Conference of 1954
  • Coda
  • On Two Doorsteps: Middle Powers and Grand Strategy
  • Managing Great Power Allies: Australian Grand Strategy in Asia, 1900–1954
  • Reflections: Making Sense of and Shaping Order in the Asia-Pacific 1900–1954
  • Index

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