Soldiering through Empire (eBook)

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Simeon Man (Autor)

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2018
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95925-5 (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.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 20th century history • american crossroads series • American Empire • american military • American Studies • Asia • Asian Americans • civilian contractors • Colonialism • colonial rule • decolonialization • Democracy • Empire • enemy combatants • filipinos • History • Korean War • Military • military deployments • Political alliances • race making • racial liberalism • Radical Democracy • Second World War • soldiers • South Korea • suppression • the pacific • The Philippines • troops • United States Military • Vietnam • Vietnam War
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95925-6 / 0520959256
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95925-5 / 9780520959255