To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War

by Jonathan Marshall

Book Overview

Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities--rubber, oil, and tin--that drew the United States into the conflict. Boldly departing from conventional wisdom, Marshall reexamines the political landscape of the time and recreates the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520304764
• ISBN13: 9780520304765
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"