Title Arc of containment : Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia / Wen-Qing Ngoei.

Publication Info.	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
	©2019

Online access
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The United States in the world
	United States in the world.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : recovering the regional dimensions of U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia -- Darkest moment : the fall of Singapore and "Chinese penetration" in the domino logic of American Cold War policy -- Patriot games : how British nation-building colonialism solved "Chinese penetration" and inspired the United States -- Manifest fantasies : British-Malayan counterinsurgency and nation-building in American strategy for the world (and Vietnam) -- The best hope : Malaysia in the "wide anti-communist arc" of Southeast Asia -- The friendly kings : Southeast Asia's transition from Anglo-American predominance to U.S. hegemony -- Coda : the reverse domino effect
Summary	"Shows how anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and its diaspora, ushering the region from European-dominated colonialism to U.S. hegemony"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia.
	United States.
	International relations.
	Southeast Asia.
	Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
	Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia.
	Great Britain.
	Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
	Communism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Communism.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Nationalism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Nationalism.
	Postcolonialism -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Postcolonialism.
	Chinese -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Chinese.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976- Arc of containment. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501716409 (DLC) 2018040259 (OCoLC)1050143998
ISBN	9781501716423 (electronic book)
	1501716417 (electronic book)
	9781501716416 (electronic book)
	1501716425 (electronic book)
	9781501716409
	1501716409

Title Arc of containment : Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia / Wen-Qing Ngoei.

Item Status

Library Links

Search Tools