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American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf Region

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf RegionW. Taylor Fain.
Author:	Fain, W. Taylor
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	viii, 283 p.
Subject:	Security, InternationalHistory20th century.Persian Gulf Region
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230613362

American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Fain, W. Taylor

American ascendance and British retreat in the Persian Gulf Region[electronic resource] /W. Taylor Fain. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - viii, 283 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-274) and index.

"Toll-Gates of Empire": Britain, the United States, and the Persian Gulf Region before 1951 *"Anti-Colonialism," Revolutionary Nationalism, and Cold War: Anglo-American Relations in the PersianGulf Region, 1950-1956 * "A Delicate Structure": Consolidation and Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region, 1957-1960 * "What a World It Is!": Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1961-1963 * "For God's Sake Act Like Britain!": Johnson, Wilson, and Britain's Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf Region, 1964-1968 * "The Twilight of the Pax Brittanica": The United States and Britain's Departure from the Persian Gulf, 1968-1972.

This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current rolein the region.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230613362

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230613362doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

474886
Security, International
--History--Persian Gulf Region--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS326 / .F25 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 327.73053

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