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Empire and Cold War

The Roots of US-Third World Antagonism, 1945–47

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Scott L. Bills

    1. Stephen F. Austin State University, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Living in the Atomic World

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 1-22

  3. Rivalry in the Mediterranean, 1945: French North Africa and the Levant

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 23-58

  4. War’s End in Southeast Asia

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 59-90

  5. Loose Change: Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and the Council of Foreign Ministers

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 91-116

  6. Struggle in the Rimlands: Southeast Asia, 1945–46

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 117-150

  7. Erring on the Safe Side: The Cold War and the Politics of Colonialism, 1946–47

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    Pages 151-200

  8. Conclusion: The World Deployed

    • Scott L. Bills
    Pages 201-212

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 213-280
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The Second World War shattered and remade the world. Two great powers - the United States and the Soviet Union - warily confronted each other across the smoking ruins of Europe. But the end of war for Europeans prompted a surge of renewed struggle in colonial areas, as nationalist groups sought greater autonomy or independence. The weakened, tottering empires of Britain, France, and the Netherlands - their myths of military and racial superiority destroyed by the wartime line of march - were beset. American policymakers were no longer afforded the luxury of ignoring colonial problems as they began to fashion a new globalism to counter Soviet influence.

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  • Stephen F. Austin State University, USA

    Scott L. Bills

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