Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947

by Hal M. Friedman

Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of the western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313313016
• ISBN13: 9780313313011
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.8"