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The Cold War in South Asia : Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945-1965 /
"The Cold War in South Asia provides the first comprehensive and transnational history of Anglo-American relations with South Asia during a seminal period in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, between independence in the late 1940s, and the height of the Cold War in the late 1960s. Drawing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Cold War in South Asia provides the first comprehensive and transnational history of Anglo-American relations with South Asia during a seminal period in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, between independence in the late 1940s, and the height of the Cold War in the late 1960s. Drawing upon significant new evidence from British, American, Indian and Eastern bloc archives, the book re-examines how and why the Cold War in South Asia evolved in the way that it did, at a time when the national leaderships, geopolitical outlooks and regional aspirations of India, Pakistan and their superpower suitors were in a state of considerable flux. The book probes the factors which encouraged the governments of Britain and the United States to work so closely together in South Asia during the two decades after independence, and suggests what benefits, if any, Anglo-American intervention in South Asia's affairs delivered, and to whom"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 391 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-478) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461936770 1461936772 9781139022071 1139022075 9781107595507 1107595509 1107289491 9781107289499 1139890468 9781139890465 1107289041 9781107289048 1107293936 9781107293939 1107290090 9781107290099 |