The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order

ISBN-13: 9780415625043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Antony Best

Opis

Providing a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968, this volume demonstrates the importance of considering forces such as ideology, trade and cultural images, as well as the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such as wars that have helped to shape East Asian international history.

Spis treści

1. Forty Years of Diminishing Cordiality: Anglo-Japanese Relations 1902–41 2. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and International Politics in Asia, 1902–23  3. Anglo-Japanese Relations and Treaty Port China: The Case of the Maritime Customs Service  4. The League of Nations, Washington and Internationalism in East Asia: With Special Reference to the League’s Attempt to Control Opium  5. Internationalism in East Asia: The Naval Armaments Limitation System, 1922–39  6. Japan and Pan-Asianism  7. Bombing, Japanese Pan-Asianism and Chinese Nationalism  8. Britain and the Origins of the San Francisco System  9. The Cold War and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: British Strategy, 1948–60  10. The East Asian International Economic Order in the 1950s  11. ‘Complementarity’, Decolonization, and the Cold War: British Responses to Japan’s Economic Revival in Southeast Asia During the 1950s and 1960s

O autorze

Antony Best is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics, UK. He is the author of Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-1941, and British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941.