Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism - Rilegato

Mao, Joyce

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ISBN 10: 022625271X ISBN 13: 9780226252711

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015

Riassunto

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People’s Republic of China in 1949with the Cold War just underwaythey had a new object of foreign policy, and as Joyce Mao reveals in this fascinating new look at twentieth-century Pacific affairs, that change would provide vital ingredients for American conservatism as we know it today.

Mao explores the deep resonance American conservatives felt with the defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek and his exile to Taiwan, which they lamented as the loss of China to communism and the corrosion of traditional values. In response, they fomented aggressive anti-communist positions that urged greater action in the Pacific, a policy known as Asia First.” While this policy would do nothing to oust the communists from China, it was powerfully effective at home. Asia First provided American conservatives a set of idealsAmerican sovereignty, selective military intervention, strident anti-communism, and the promotion of a technological defense statethat would bring them into the global era with the positions that are now their hallmark.

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L'autore:

Joyce Mao is assistant professor of US history at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022625271X
• ISBN 13: 9780226252711
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226