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Mapping the end of empire : American and British strategic visions in the postwar world, Aiyaz Husain
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- Summary
- Main Description: 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 the End of Empire reveals how Anglo-American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia. Aiyaz Husain shows that American and British postwar strategy drew on popular notions of geography as well as academic and military knowledge. Once codified in maps and memoranda, these perspectives became foundations of foreign policy. In South Asia, American officials envisioned an independent Pakistan blocking Soviet influence, an objective that outweighed other considerations in the contested Kashmir region. Shoring up Pakistan meshed perfectly with British hopes for a quiescent Indian subcontinent once partition became inevitable. But serious differences with Britain arose over America's support for the new state of Israel. Viewing the Mediterranean as a European lake of sorts, U.S. officials--even in parts of the State Department--linked Palestine with Europe, deeming it a perfectly logical destination for Jewish refugees. But British strategists feared that the installation of a Jewish state in Palestine could incite Muslim ire from one corner of the Islamic world to the other. As Husain makes clear, these perspectives also influenced the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and blueprints for the UN Security Council and shaped French and Dutch colonial fortunes in the Levant and the East Indies
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (364 pages)
- Contents
-
- All of Palestine
- Remapping Zion
- The contested valley
- Keystone of the strategic arch
- Imperial residues
- Two visions of the postwar world
- Maps, ideas, and geopolitics
- Joining the community of nations
- From imagined to real borders
- Isbn
- 9780674419438
- Label
- Mapping the end of empire : American and British strategic visions in the postwar world
- Title
- Mapping the end of empire
- Title remainder
- American and British strategic visions in the postwar world
- Statement of responsibility
- Aiyaz Husain
- Subject
-
- Decolonization
- Decolonization -- Middle East
- Decolonization -- South Asia
- Diplomatic relations
- Entkolonialisierung
- Geographical perception
- Geographical perception -- Middle East
- Geographical perception -- South Asia
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1964
- Großbritannien
- HISTORY -- Middle East -- General
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- 1900-1999
- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- 20th century
- Middle East
- Middle East -- Palestine
- Mittlerer Osten
- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
- South Asia
- Südasien
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
- History
- Außenpolitik
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Main Description: 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 the End of Empire reveals how Anglo-American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia. Aiyaz Husain shows that American and British postwar strategy drew on popular notions of geography as well as academic and military knowledge. Once codified in maps and memoranda, these perspectives became foundations of foreign policy. In South Asia, American officials envisioned an independent Pakistan blocking Soviet influence, an objective that outweighed other considerations in the contested Kashmir region. Shoring up Pakistan meshed perfectly with British hopes for a quiescent Indian subcontinent once partition became inevitable. But serious differences with Britain arose over America's support for the new state of Israel. Viewing the Mediterranean as a European lake of sorts, U.S. officials--even in parts of the State Department--linked Palestine with Europe, deeming it a perfectly logical destination for Jewish refugees. But British strategists feared that the installation of a Jewish state in Palestine could incite Muslim ire from one corner of the Islamic world to the other. As Husain makes clear, these perspectives also influenced the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and blueprints for the UN Security Council and shaped French and Dutch colonial fortunes in the Levant and the East Indies
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1977-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Husain, Aiyaz
- Dewey number
- 956.04
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS63.18
- LC item number
- .H86 2014eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Decolonization
- Decolonization
- Geographical perception
- Geographical perception
- Palestine
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)
- Great Britain
- United States
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- Decolonization
- Diplomatic relations
- Geographical perception
- Great Britain
- India
- Middle East
- Middle East
- South Asia
- United States
- Außenpolitik
- Entkolonialisierung
- Großbritannien
- Mittlerer Osten
- Südasien
- USA
- Label
- Mapping the end of empire : American and British strategic visions in the postwar world, Aiyaz Husain
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- All of Palestine -- Remapping Zion -- The contested valley -- Keystone of the strategic arch -- Imperial residues -- Two visions of the postwar world -- Maps, ideas, and geopolitics -- Joining the community of nations -- From imagined to real borders
- Control code
- 871257381
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (364 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674419438
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674419438
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt65v8f3
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871257381
- Label
- Mapping the end of empire : American and British strategic visions in the postwar world, Aiyaz Husain
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- All of Palestine -- Remapping Zion -- The contested valley -- Keystone of the strategic arch -- Imperial residues -- Two visions of the postwar world -- Maps, ideas, and geopolitics -- Joining the community of nations -- From imagined to real borders
- Control code
- 871257381
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (364 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674419438
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674419438
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt65v8f3
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871257381
Subject
- Decolonization
- Decolonization -- Middle East
- Decolonization -- South Asia
- Diplomatic relations
- Entkolonialisierung
- Geographical perception
- Geographical perception -- Middle East
- Geographical perception -- South Asia
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1964
- Großbritannien
- HISTORY -- Middle East -- General
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- 1900-1999
- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- 20th century
- Middle East
- Middle East -- Palestine
- Mittlerer Osten
- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
- South Asia
- Südasien
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
- History
- Außenpolitik
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