The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II

by Robert J. McMahon

Book Overview

In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers exaggerated the significance of the region within the global power balance, dangerously overextending the United States and resulting in the tragedy of the Vietnam War.The first book to situate the Vietnam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231108818
• ISBN13: 9780231108812
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher