Empires at War : A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II.
Title:
Empires at War : A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II.
Author:
Pike, Francis.
ISBN:
9780857719409
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (763 pages)
Contents:
Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- List of Maps -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Reader's Guide -- Introduction and Background -- PART I AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS COMPETITORS 1621-1945 -- 1 American Empire and Its Competitors America: 1621-1945 -- PART II ASIA'S POST-WAR SETTLEMENT -- 2 Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Atom Bomb Japan: 1945 -- 3 Mao and the Chinese Revolution China: 1945-54 -- 4 Emperor Hirohito and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Japan: 1945-8 -- 5 Mahatma Gandhi: Passive Aggression India: 1945-7 -- 6 'An Iron Curtain Has Descended' America-Soviet Union: 1945-61 -- 7 Stalin, Mao and Truman: Post-War Alliances China: 1945-50 -- 8 Chiang Kai Shek and the Flight to Taiwan Taiwan: 1945-9 -- 9 MacArthur, Yoshida and the American Occupation of Japan Japan: 1945-54 -- 10 Ho Chí Minh and the Battle of Diên Biên Phu Vietnam: 1945-54 -- 11 General Phibun: National Socialist Dictator Thailand: 1945-58 -- 12 From Independence to Dependency Philippines: 1945-60 -- 13 Lord Mountbatten and the Partition of India India-Pakistan: 1945-7 -- 14 Origins of the Korean War Korea: 1945-50 -- 15 Aung San: Revolutionary and Turncoat Burma: 1945-9 -- 16 Sukarno: The Founding Father Indonesia: 1945-50 -- 17 Independence and the Racial Contract Malaysia: 1945-80 -- 18 Lee Kuan Yew: Pocket Giant Singapore: 1945-64 -- 19 Capitalist Redoubt Hong Kong: 1945-97 -- PART III COLD WAR IN THE BALANCE -- 20 The Korean War Korea: 1950-3 -- 21 The Great Leap Forward China: 1949-61 -- 22 Dictatorship and Prosperity Taiwan: 1947-75 -- 23 Nehru: The Fashioning of a Legend India: 1945-65 -- 24 Jinnah and Pakistan's Failed Constitution Pakistan: 1945-65 -- 25 Fall of Rhee and Park's 'Economic Miracle' South Korea: 1954-79 -- 26 Kim II Sung: The 'Great Leader' North Korea: 1950-80 -- 27 The Todai Oligarchs Japan: 1955-92.
28 The Cultural Revolution China: 1961-70 -- 29 Indira Gandhi: A Study in Nepotism India: 1966-84 -- 30 Kennedy: Vietnam and the Vienna Summit America-Vietnam: 1954-63 -- 31 'The Year of Living Dangerously' Indonesia: 1950-68 -- 32 LBJ and the Vietnam Quagmire Vietnam: 1963-9 -- 33 The Trouble with Tigers Sri Lanka: 1945-94 -- 34 Nixon in China America-China: 1969-71 -- 35 The Night of the Intellectuals Bangladesh-Pakistan: 1965-73 -- 36 Têt Offensive: Lost Victories America-Vietnam: 1968-75 -- 37 The Bombing of Cambodia Cambodia: 1969-73 -- 38 Revolution's End: The Deaths of Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Lin Biao China: 1970-6 -- 39 The Murder of Aquino: The Disgrace of Ferdinand Marcos Philippines: 1960-86 -- 40 Coups d'Etat: A Way of Life Thailand: 1958-91 -- 41 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq Pakistan: 1973-88 -- 42 Pol Pot: Deconstructionism and Genocide Cambodia: 1973-79 -- PART IV COMMUNISM IN RETREAT -- 43 The Gang of Four China: 1976-9 -- 44 The End of the Tyrants Korea: 1979-2001 -- 45 Dr Mahathir: The Acerbic Autocrat -- 46 Suharto: Rule of the Kleptocrats Indonesia: 1965-98 -- 47 Rogue State North Korea: 1980-2005 -- 48 Bloodlust and Revenge Bangladesh: 1971-96 -- 49 Cory Aquino and the Rocky Path to Democracy Philippines: 1986-2000 -- 50 Deng Xiaoping: 'Capitalist Roader No. 2' China: 1974-96 -- 51 Benazir and Sharif: Rise and Fall of the Demagogues Pakistan: 1988-99 -- 52 The Narcotic State Burma: 1948-2005 -- 53 Rajiv Gandhi: The Reluctant Pilot India: 1984-9 -- 54 The Tiananmen Square Massacre China: 1987-9 -- 55 Property Crash and the Lost Decade Japan: 1990-2000 -- 56 Narasimha Rao and the Quiet Revolution India: 1990-2003 -- 57 The Savaging of the Tiger Economies Asia: 1996-8 -- 58 A Bungled Surrender Hong Kong: 1980-97 -- 59 One China or Two? Taiwan: 1947-2005 -- 60 Nukes and Mullahs Pakistan: 1973-2005.
PART V END OF AMERICA'S ASIAN EMPIRE -- 61 Asia Redux Asia: 1990-2010 -- 62 From Cold War to End of Empire America-Asia: 1945-2010 -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting point, Francis Pike chronicles the modern fortunes of fourteen Asian countries. The iconic figures of post-World War II Asia - Mao, Gandhi, Nehru, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, General MacArthur and Lord Mountbatten - figure prominently but so also do a great many lesser-known but pivotal figures. Francis Pike weaves the dramatic events and episodes of the region - the great battles between American and Soviet-backed forces in Korea and Vietnam but also episodes such as Indian 'Partition', Japan's 'Lost Decade', Indonesia's 'Year of Living Dangerously' and Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' - into a coherent whole, which forms the essential guide to the history of modern Asia.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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