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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHusain, Aiyaz, _d1977- _e1
245	1	0	_aMapping the end of empire : _bAmerican and British strategic visions in the postwar world / _cAiyaz Husain.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (364 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aMain Description: By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world through very different lenses. Mapping the End of Empire reveals how Anglo-American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia. Aiyaz Husain shows that American and British postwar strategy drew on popular notions of geography as well as academic and military knowledge. Once codified in maps and memoranda, these perspectives became foundations of foreign policy. In South Asia, American officials envisioned an independent Pakistan blocking Soviet influence, an objective that outweighed other considerations in the contested Kashmir region. Shoring up Pakistan meshed perfectly with British hopes for a quiescent Indian subcontinent once partition became inevitable. But serious differences with Britain arose over America's support for the new state of Israel. Viewing the Mediterranean as a European lake of sorts, U.S. officials--even in parts of the State Department--linked Palestine with Europe, deeming it a perfectly logical destination for Jewish refugees. But British strategists feared that the installation of a Jewish state in Palestine could incite Muslim ire from one corner of the Islamic world to the other. As Husain makes clear, these perspectives also influenced the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and blueprints for the UN Security Council and shaped French and Dutch colonial fortunes in the Levant and the East Indies.
505	0	0	_aAll of Palestine -- _tRemapping Zion -- _tThe contested valley -- _tKeystone of the strategic arch -- _tImperial residues -- _tTwo visions of the postwar world -- _tMaps, ideas, and geopolitics -- _tJoining the community of nations -- _tFrom imagined to real borders.
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650		0	_aDecolonization _zMiddle East.
650		0	_aDecolonization _zSouth Asia.
650		0	_aGeographical perception _zMiddle East.
650		0	_aGeographical perception _zSouth Asia.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=706816&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell