After Hiroshima

The United States, Race and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945–1965

By:

Matthew Jones

Format:

Hardback

Show Hide Adult Content

$340.00

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Free Delivery with Primate

Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $85.00 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $56.67 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 11-21 June using International Courier

Description

By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima, published in 2010, provides an original history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Author Biography:

Matthew Jones is Professor of American Foreign Relations at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include Britain, the United States, and the Mediterranean War, 1942-44 (1996) and Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965 (Cambridge, 2002).

Release date NZ

April 15th, 2010

Author

Matthew Jones

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

514

Dimensions

158x235x31

ISBN-13

9780521881005

Product ID

4190182

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here