The United States and decolonization:power and freedom

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Ryan David, 1965-; Pungong Victor, 1966-
Published: Macmillan Press St. Martin's Press,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, N.Y.
Publication Dates: 2000.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xvii, 247 p.: ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 031223158X (cloth)
0333730550 (cloth)
Index Number: D066
CLC: D066
D871.29
Call Number: D066/U581
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index.
By way of introduction : The United States, decolonization and the world system / David Ryan -- The American view of decolonization, 1776-1920 : an ironic legacy / Walter LaFeber -- The road to our America : the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean / Laurie Johnston -- 'Adjusting to a new period in world history' : Franklin Roosevelt and European colonialism / Paul Orders -- The United States and the international trusteeship system / Victor Pungong -- The ironies of history : the United States and the decolonization of India / Dennis Merrill -- How we 'lost' Vietnam, 1940-54 / Lloyd C. Gardner -- The limits of ideology : US foreign policy and Arab nationalism in the early Cold War / Scott Lucas -- The United States and the decolonization of Black Africa, 1945-63 / John Kent -- The United States and Britain's decolonization of Malaya, 1942-57 / A.J. Stockwell -- Conclusions : The decolonization puzzle in US policy : promise versus performance / Michael H. Hunt -- Afterword / Cary Fraser.