Soldiering through Empire

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Simeon Man (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28336-7 (ISBN)

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In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule, these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Simeon Man uncovers the little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was sustained through overlapping projects of colonialism and race making. Through their military deployments, Man argues, these soldiers took part in the making of a new Pacific world-a decolonizing Pacific-in which the imperatives of U.S. empire collided with insurgent calls for decolonization, producing often surprising political alliances, imperial tactics of suppression, and new visions of radical democracy.

Simeon Man is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
1 • Securing Asia for Asians: Making the U.S. Transnational Security State
2 • Colonial Intimacies and Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, South Vietnam, and the United States
3 • Race War in Paradise: Hawai‘i’s Vietnam War
4 • Working the Subempire: Philippine and South Korean Military Labor in Vietnam
5 • Fighting “Gooks”: Asian Americans and the Vietnam War
6 • A World Becoming: The GI Movement and the Decolonizing Pacific
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Crossroads ; 48
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w photos and 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-28336-8 / 0520283368
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28336-7 / 9780520283367
Zustand	Neuware