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Grand improvisation : America confronts the British superpower, 1945-1957 / Derek Leebaert.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.G7 L35 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leebaert, Derek, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Relations--Great Britain.
- United States.
- Relations.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--United States.
- World politics--1945-1955.
- World politics.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 612 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- America confronts the British superpower, 1945-1957
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A bold new view of the U.S. rise to supremacy, and its collision with a British Empire that wouldn't step aside."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The three in 1945
- Keynes & Co.
- Entering the Middle East
- False starts
- Warfare states
- Year of the offensive
- Defending the west
- The outer fortress: protecting the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
- Auditing an empire
- Pivoting to Asia and into Vietnam
- War on the rim
- Asia's three fighting fronts
- "Holding the ring" in Iran and Egypt
- Churchill is back
- Stemming the tide
- Coronations and crises
- The break points of 1954
- Ordering chaos
- No end of a lesson
- What happened next
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374250720
- 0374250723
- OCLC:
- 1019972309
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