American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
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American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-274) and index
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Description
This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.
Table of Contents
Toll-Gates of Empire: Britain, the United States, and the Persian Gulf Region before 1951 Anti-Colonialism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Cold War: Anglo-American Relations in the Persian Gulf Region, 1950-1956 A Delicate Structure: Consolidation and Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region, 1957-1960 What a World It Is!: Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1961-1963 For God's Sake Act Like Britain!: Johnson, Wilson, and Britain's Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf Region, 1964-1968 The Twilight of the Pax Brittanica: The United States and Britain's Departure from the Persian Gulf, 1968-1972
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