Mapping the end of empire. American and British strategic visions in the postwar world

by Husain, Aiyaz

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Full title :Mapping the end of empire. American and British strategic visions in the postwar world. / Aiyaz Husain.

Summary

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. This book reveals how Anglo-American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia.0Aiyaz 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:324 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674728882, 0674728882
oclc:ocn880557702
LC Classification:DS31-35.2
Dewey Decimal:950

Subjects

Décolonisation -- Asie méridionale Decolonization Decolonization -- Middle East Decolonization -- South Asia Diplomatic relations États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- … Geographical perception -- Middle East Geographical perception -- South Asia Grande-Bretagne -- Relations extérieure… Great Britain Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1… History India -- Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History --… Middle East Middle East -- Palestine Palestine -- Histoire -- 1917-1948 Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948 South Asia United States