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Creating an American lake : United States imperialism and strategic security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 / Hal M. Friedman ; foreword by Dirk Anthony Ballendorf.
LIBRA DU30 .F75 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedman, Hal M., 1965-
- Series:
- Contributions in military studies 0883-6884 ; no. 198.
- Contributions in military studies, 0883-6884 ; no. 198
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- Pacific Area--Foreign relations--United States.
- Pacific Area.
- United States--Foreign relations--Pacific Area.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
- Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)--Strategic aspects.
- Pacific Islands (Trust Territory).
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- History.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 219 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Analyzes U.S. security policy toward the Pacific Basin from the beginning of the Truman Administration in April 1945 to the implementation of the Containment Doctrine in the summer and fall of 1947.
- Contents:
- 1. Modified Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin 1
- 2. A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s 17
- 3. The Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin 37
- 4. The Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin 63
- 5. Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands 95
- 6. "Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View": US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands 117
- 7. "As a Forward Bulwark of the American Way of Life": Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure 137
- Conclusion: Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313313016
- OCLC:
- 42823684
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