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Empires on the Pacific : World War II and the struggle for the mastery of Asia / Robert Smith Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Robert Smith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Asia.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area.
- World politics--1900-1945.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis -- the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Washington, December 8, 1941 xi
- Part I The Road to War
- 1 The Fall of Imperial China 3
- 2 Japan's Response to the West 21
- 3 The Open Door 41
- 4 New Order in East Asia 57
- 5 The Road to Pearl Harbor 75
- Part II Japan's Far-Flung Battle Line
- 6 The Onslaught 101
- 7 The Singapore Debacle 123
- 8 Warriors of the Rising Sun 141
- 9 But Not in Shame 159
- 10 Midway 177
- Part III The Receding of the Tide
- 11 America Rising 199
- 12 The Hammer and the Anvil 221
- 13 Grand Strategy 239
- 14 Unanswerable Strength 257
- 15 Turning Points 277
- Part IV Recasting the Imperial Far East
- 16 Yalta 297
- 17 Return to the Colonies 313
- 18 The New Taipans 327
- 19 The Masters 343
- 20 They Call It Peace 363
- Epilogue: World War II and the Road to Vietnam 377.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-414) and index.
- ISBN:
- 046508575X
- 0465070582
- OCLC:
- 47623782
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