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100 1 _aKarl Hack
245 1 0 _aDefence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia
_bBritain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-1967
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260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20150304
300 _a341 p
520 _bThis book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. Also, it shows how decolonisation was shaped not just by British aims, but by the way communism, communalism and nationalism facilitated and frustrated these.
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