R. B. Smith

Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93 (eBook, PDF)

Transformations and Continuities
Redaktion: Mitcham, Chad

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Produktbeschreibung

Ralph Smith was a respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This work, completed and edited by one of Ralph Smith's former students, draws together the product of Smith's research, reading and international travel from 1966 to 2000.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134178339
• Artikelnr.: 42676119

Autorenporträt

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Viet-nam and the West (1971); and the three volume: An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).

Chad J. Mitcham is a Canberra-based writer and researcher. He completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is the author of China's Economic Relations With the West and Japan, 1949-79: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy (Routledge, 2005).

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EDITOR'S NOTE PREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS USED IN TEXT
INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS PROLOGUE: THE
SEATTLE 'SUMMIT', NOVEMBER 1993 PART I: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE:
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1943 1. THE TOKYO CONFERENCE AND THE 'GREATER EAST ASIA
PERSPECTIVE, 1943 2. US, BRITISH AND COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA,
1943: TOWARDS A POST-WAR GLOBAL ECONOMY PART II: THE 'COLD WAR' IN EAST
ASIA: 1953 AND 1963 3. A WORLD DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS': NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
1953 4. THE CHALLENGE TO 'AMERICAN IMPERIALISM': NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1963
PART III: ASIAN-PACIFIC DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL
FINANCE: 1973 5. NIXON'S NEW STRATEGY: THE US, CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF
SOUTH-EAST ASIA, NOVEMBER 1973 6. DIRECTIONS OF GROWTH: THE US, JAPAN, AND
ASIAN CAPITALISM: MAY-DECEMBER 1973 PART IV: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE
'ASIAN MIRACLE': 1983-4 AND 1993 7. A 'NEW COLD WAR', AUTUMN 1983 8. THE
REAFFIRMATION OF AMERICAN CENTRALITY (AUTUMN 1983) AND 'THE REAL 1984' 9.
CAPITALISM MOVES AHEAD - REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS, FINANCE AND
MILITARY AFFAIRS, 1993 EPILOGUE: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: CONTINUITY AND
CHANGE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX