The United States and Decolonization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. By Way of Introduction: the United States, Decolonization and the World System

   • David Ryan

   Pages 1-23

3. The American View of Decolonization, 1776–1920: an Ironic Legacy

   • Walter LaFeber

   Pages 24-40

4. The Road to Our America: the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean

   • Laurie Johnston

   Pages 41-62

5. ‘Adjusting to a New Period in World History’: Franklin Roosevelt and European Colonialism

   • Paul Orders

   Pages 63-84

6. The United States and the International Trusteeship System

   • Victor Pungong

   Pages 85-101

7. The Ironies of History: the United States and the Decolonization of India

   • Dennis Merrill

   Pages 102-120

8. How We ‘Lost’ Vietnam, 1940–54

   • Lloyd C. Gardner

   Pages 121-139

9. The Limits of Ideology: US Foreign Policy and Arab Nationalism in the Early Cold War

   • Scott Lucas

   Pages 140-167

10. The United States and the Decolonization of Black Africa, 1945–63

    • John Kent

    Pages 168-187

11. The United States and Britain’s Decolonization of Malaya, 1942–57

    • A. J. Stockwell

    Pages 188-206

12. Conclusions: the Decolonization Puzzle in US Policy — Promise versus Performance

    • Michael H. Hunt

    Pages 207-229

13. Afterword

    • Cary Fraser

    Pages 230-232

14. Back Matter

    Pages 233-247

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At the international level the twentieth century was characterized by the rise in national self-determination in the Third World and by the rise of US power. This book analyzes the dynamics of the changing relationships between the United States and states seeking decolonization, within the contexts of the US relationship with the European colonial powers, the Cold War, and the economic system. Its scope is broad in both space and time. This collection of articles brings together leading scholars as well as recently qualified authors on a subject that was confined in the Cold War paradigm, but ultimately needs to transcend it.

• Caribbean
• Cold War
• colonialism
• colonization
• decolonization
• European colonial powers
• history
• Latin America
• liberty
• Third World
• USA
• world history

• Department of Historical and International Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  David Ryan

• The Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK

  Victor Pungong

DAVID RYAN lectures in International History and US foreign relations at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations (1995) and a co-author of The History Atlas of North America, as well as numerous articles on US foreign relations.

VICTOR PUNGONG is Senior Political Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. He has published work on the political and diplomatic aspects of decolonization, including 'The Theoretical Basis and Political Feasibility of the Trusteeship-Peacekeeping Connection' in The Cambridge Review of International Studies, VIII, no.2 (1994).

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