The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
By Way of Introduction: the United States, Decolonization and the World System....Pages 1-23
The American View of Decolonization, 1776–1920: an Ironic Legacy....Pages 24-40
The Road to Our America: the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean....Pages 41-62
‘Adjusting to a New Period in World History’: Franklin Roosevelt and European Colonialism....Pages 63-84
The United States and the International Trusteeship System....Pages 85-101
The Ironies of History: the United States and the Decolonization of India....Pages 102-120
How We ‘Lost’ Vietnam, 1940–54....Pages 121-139
The Limits of Ideology: US Foreign Policy and Arab Nationalism in the Early Cold War....Pages 140-167
The United States and the Decolonization of Black Africa, 1945–63....Pages 168-187
The United States and Britain’s Decolonization of Malaya, 1942–57....Pages 188-206
Conclusions: the Decolonization Puzzle in US Policy — Promise versus Performance....Pages 207-229
Afterword....Pages 230-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-247