Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941 (American E

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The Arc of Containment shows that anti-communist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with pre-existing local antipathy toward China and its diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to U. McMahon, The Limits of Empire: Columbia University Press, Simpson, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U. Stanford University Press, Duke University Press, is one insightful work that, in part, skillfully examines these Cold War antecedents and the responses of the colonial powers.

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Please check back later. At present, the journal is available free to all users. The result is a book that merits the attention of scholars of Southeast Asia and European colonialism as well as U. By pointing out the struggle between Western interests and nationalistic movements and juxtaposing Westem perceptions of these movements as communist, Foster's volume is an excellent analysis of American colonial history in Southeast Asia for students at the secondary and undergraduate level, but is too narrowly focused for graduate studies.

In addition, the volume is a useful reference source and Foster provides a rich bibliography of primary and secondary material that teachers and students alike would find useful in researching the subject farther.

Future scholars who seek to proceed further with the project of seeing United States imperialism in comparative perspective s will surely have to consider this work as one of their first points of departure. Anne Foster has written a fine and provocative book, and largely succeeds in integrating the United States into the history of interwar Southeast Asia in ways that neither read as prelude to the Cold War nor exaggerate American difference in its colonial attitudes and practices.

Projections Of Power: The United States And Europe In Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941

Based on extensive and detailed research in a variety of both official and unofficial British, US, Dutch, and French archives, as well as wide reading in the secondary literature on modern South East Asian history, there is to my knowledge no other volume comparable to this. Her conclusions about economic and cultural influence in the region are especially insightful.

Foster has identified a promising topic for future research and her book may be profitably read by historians of Southeast Asia.

Projections of Power is ground-breaking. It ties together the histories of U.

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The research on which the arguments are based is remarkable, the extensive use of multilingual and multi-archival sources praiseworthy. Her book is a major contribution to efforts to destabilize still-prevailing notions of American exceptionalism. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, to the Present.

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Instructions for requesting an electronic text on behalf of a student with disabilities are available here. Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European colonists and Southeast Asians after the United States joined the ranks of colonial powers in ? Foster argues that the actions of the United States functioned primarily to uphold, and even strengthen, the colonial order in Southeast Asia.

Yet the American presence did not always serve colonial ends; American cultural products including movies and consumer goods and its economic practices such as encouraging indigenous entrepreneurship were appropriated by Southeast Asians for their own purposes. Scholars have rarely explored the interactions among the European colonies of Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century.

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